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He wasn't going to simply sit back and wait for Death to clai to live life until he couldn't hold his eyes open any longer

Andy didn't want to die in some sterile hospital and asked me to take hiether

Emily Emily was a problem for me

I harbored a secret that would have torn our friendship apart I was in love with Andy's girl, and had been since she'd walked into our sixth grade class, so o

So what kind of person a, and it's awful--butbeyond Andy's death and whether there could ever be a future for Emily and I, but I can't help it

I'm in love with her

Excerpt

Prologue

Death It is the only certainty in life

It’s such a s about it and we fear it, because we’re taught to do so, because nobody really knohat happens when you die It’s that uncertainty that is so terrifying

It’s as into perspective

How being told your body is going to slowly give up on you ht you once knew Things you take for granted suddenly see itself, it’s everything you’re going to be leaving behind

My na that still freaksI have left A ry: I’ve been fighting this fucking disease since I was seventeen and it’s finally going to win I have nothing else to fight with because it has taken everything

Then I realized that this is no longer about me I can’t save myself, but I can make sure the people I love are taken care of This becaain

That’s when I decided I was going to do this on my terms