Ninety-one year-old Alice Butler lives in Florida, but her heart is far away. It was stolen long ago by a stranger in the desert sun. Alice was 18 when she married and it wasn't long before she had the first of her seven children. When her husband's health faltered in the mid-1940s, they moved to the desert heat of Tucson, Ariz., where Alice would meet the love of her life. It happened one day, as Alice walked with her young son, Vernon. The child suddenly slipped from her grasp, and darted into the path of an oncoming bus. "I had...