

After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern boarding school. Daphne finally seems to have rediscovered love in her leading man. But an accident leaves her hospitalized, contemplating her life, fate and her best chance for love.
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Danielle Steel's Once In A Lifetime Excerpt
Cast

Lindsay Wagner
Daphne Fields

Barry Bostwick
Dr. Matthew Dane
Duncan Regehr
Justin Wakefield

Amy Aquino
Barbera

Rex Smith
Jeffrey Fields
Darrell Thomas Utley
Andrew

Fran Bennett
Dr. Liz Wells

Debra Sullivan
Harriet

Michael Mitz
Howard

Michael Laskin
The Pediatrician

Dawn Jeffory
Counsellor for the Deaf
Mark Davenport
Sam
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