In 1932, her mother died from serious injuries she received in a car accident[8] when Fitzgerald was 15 years of age. This left her at first in the care of her stepfather but before the end of April 1933, she had moved in with her aunt in Harlem.[This seemingly swift change in her circumstances, reinforced by what Fitzgerald biographer Stuart Nicholson describes as rumors of her stepfather's "ill-treatment" of Fitzgerald, leaves him to speculate that Da Silva might have abused her
I love her and her music and reading what she went through and how to had the power to live and follow her dream and I am happy she did as there will never be a woman like her and that one of a kind voice
