Dana Reeve

[4] Morosini graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in English Literature from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1984.

[citation needed] She authored the book Care Packages: Letters to Christopher Reeve from Strangers and Other Friends.

In 2004, she was performing in the Broadway-bound play Brooklyn Boy at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, when she had to rush home to reach her husband's bedside after he went into cardiac arrest and a coma.

[citation needed] The children's book Dewey Doo-it Helps Owlie Fly Again: A Musical Storybook Inspired by Christopher Reeve was published in 2005 and included an audio to accompany the book with Mandy Patinkin reading the story as well as Reeve and Bernadette Peters singing.

[citation needed] On February 2, 2005, eight days before the death of her mother Helen, Reeve attended President George W. Bush's State of the Union address seated in the Capitol gallery in Washington, D.C., as the guest of Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI).

[8] Several months before her death, Reeve taped the PBS documentary The New Medicine focusing on the growing trend in medical care combining holistic and traditional treatment.

[15] In 2005, Reeve received the "Mother of the Year Award" from the American Cancer Society for her dedication and determination in raising her son after the loss of her husband.

She appeared at Madison Square Garden on January 12, 2006, and sang the Carole King song "Now and Forever" in honor of New York Rangers hockey player Mark Messier, whose number was retired that evening.

[17] She arranged for her 13-year-old son, Will Reeve, to live with their next-door neighbors so he could finish school where he started instead of being forced to move in with relatives elsewhere.