In "The Leap" the narrator feels that she owes her life to her mother, Anna, a former trapeze artist of the Flying Avalons. Long before the narrator was born a seven month, pregnant Anna, and her then husband Harry, had been performing their act when a bolt of lightning came down and struck the main-pole of the circus tent. This resulted in Harry falling to his death and an injured Anna to be admitted to a hospital for a month and a half where she gave birth to her stillborn daughter. The narrator considers this to be the first time her mother saved her do to the fact she felt her stillborn sister was an unfinished version of herself. The second time the narrator's mother saved her was during Anna's stay at the hospital.
During her hospital
During her hospital