When Janna Holm's grandmother Dorothy Ann died of brain cancer in 1996 she was unable to speak. But in the last two weeks of her life she covered 20 or more index cards with long unbroken strings of capital letters that made no apparent sense. Her family was convinced that she meant something by her writing but they could not decipher the mystery.
Dorothy Ann had led a quiet life in Minnesota. She married Lyle Holm, a former second world war submariner, in 1949 and had four children, one who died in infancy. After her marriage, she devoted herself to her children and, later, grandchildren. Janna remembers that her grandmother "never flew in a plane and never drove a car (scared of both), and hated having her photo taken".
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