Between 1945-1990, over four million unwed pregnant young women of all races and backgrounds across America sought refuge in Rescue Homes. Rather than be publicly shunned and ridiculed, they lived there in secrecy in exchange for releasing their babies for adoption. This story is about one child that was saved from abortion and born under these circumstances.

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This trailer promotes the film "The Ultimate Gift." It's the first 40% of the feature script, "Letters to Stephanie."  Jo-Ann Wilhelm, the script-writer, is seeking the "right" person to produce the feature script and turn it into a "Movie of the Week."

The short and  feature scripts together have  won awards in over thirty film festivals and script contests.

Letters to Stephanie postcard

Scriptwriter Jo-Ann "Jody" Wilhelm Shares Unique and Inspirational Story in "The Ultimate Gift" in Film

Adapted from her novel Where's Stephanie?

Written under her pen name Lenora Livingston

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BACKGROUND:  This story begins during a time when pregnancy out of wedlock carried a social stigma. To avoid being shunned and publicly ridiculed, the young women were sent away, many against their will, to live in secrecy at homes for unwed mothers in exchange for giving up their babies for adoption.

In the 1980's, a woman's daughter dies. She prevents her son's child from being aborted. The pregnant young woman and her mother want the baby, but her father threatens to disown her if she keeps it. Neither the birth father nor his mother have any legal rights to his daughter that's placed for adoption. Social Services will permit them and the birth mother to write letters without identifiable information for the baby's adoption file. The baby, who's named Stephanie, will be permitted to have a copy of her birth file after she's twenty-one. The grandmother puts clues to the birth family's identity in her letter. Social Services destroys most of her letter.

The rest of the story can only be described as divine intervention.  Even though their families live over a hundred miles apart, Stephanie and her grandmother's lives are divinely intertwined.  They are placed directly in each other's path over and over again.  It's an effective drama about the tenacity of family love.

The short script covers the first 40 pecent of the  feature script . See the Film Festival Awards list on the Press Inquiries page.

Where’s Stephanie? A Story of Love, Faith, and Courage

by Lenora Livingston is available worldwide in the following formats.

2nd Edition Paperbacks................................................................................ISBN–978-1511737418

Available directly from Amazon at https://amazon.com/dp/1511737417  or from your favorite book seller.

Kindle ........................................................................................Available through Amazon

Audio Tape.................................................................................Available through Audible, iTunes, and Amazon.

First Edition, Limited, Hard Copy with Book Jacket: ISBN 97558-1-4627-4486    AbeBooks.com

First Edition, Limited, Paperback: ISBN 9781462744879      AbeBooks.com