(Editor’s note: This article first appeared in the Duluth News-Tribune (MN) on Friday, November 10, 2000. It was part of a package of stories by the News Tribune staff that won second place for in-depth reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists.)

by Tom Wilkowske

Lake Superior took Amy Kalmon’s father from her 25 years ago today. It took Cheryl Rozman’s, too.

Kalmon ws 15, Rozman was 28.

A teen-ager, a young mother. Two daughters, two separate lives. One lake, one shipwreck — 25 years of grief and healing, of setbacks and steps forward.