Who is Mrs. Miranda Javensen (aka Mrs. Miranda Johnson) from Whatever Happened to Janie? and what is their importance?

Miranda Johnson is an elegant woman. Both she and Janie both have collections of Swatch watches so that they can select one that matches their clothing and jewelry each day. She loves clothes and enjoys shopping for them and their accessories with Jennie. MIranda works as a volunteer at the hospital and has an entire wardrobe dedicated to making the ugly salmon jacket she has to wear look less repulsive.

Miranda is a woman who has had motherhood destroyed for her not once, but twice. Her natural daughter, Hannah, had ruined their lives not once, but twice. Miranda is faced with a situation no mother should go through. Having lost her first daughter, Hannah, to a cult, she now faces the loss of the second daughter. Janie had been dropped off by Hannah when Janie was just three and a half years old. Hannah told her parents that Janie was hers, but that she couldn't raise her. Instead, she left her with them, going back to the cult that had such a hold over her. Fearful that the cult would come for the girl, the Javensen's change their name to Johnson, and move. They spend the next twelve years or better raising Janie as their own daughter. When the courts rule that Janie must return to the Spring family, Miranda is determined to do the right thing. She tells her second daughter that she is not her mother, and that she belongs with the Springs. She holds her composure until her daughter is gone, and then the life seeps out of her. All of her elegance, poise and confidence is gone in that moment. For Miranda, life will never be the same. Devastated, she obeys the wishes of the Springs and does not contact her daughter by phone or mail, but the bond goes beyond mere genetics. What Miranda doesn't know is that soon Janie will be home again.