As a child, Wood featured in films like Miracle on 34th Street and The Ghost and Mrs Muir.

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"I wanted to write about my journey and what had happened with losing Matthew and then this miracle that had happened to us with our new child, our two-year-old Luke, and I wanted to write that story to show people that out of despair can still come happiness, " he says.

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All of it was enough to crush a child, but Nick witnessed his father's miracle -- and gained strength from it.

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They seem to me a sort of nighttime miracle, like the gifts of the Befana, which I waited for as a child.

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