Between June: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Everything

They were fighting before they were friends.In twelfth grade, Paul and Ioana were adversaries, not because they disliked each other, but because neither knew what to do with what they felt. So they fought. They argued. They circled each other with the particular tension of two people who have not yet admitted what they want.Then came a conspiracy. They would play a joke on their friends, pretend to be a couple, see who believed it. The friends believed it. And in the pretending, something neither had planned for happened: the joke became the truth.Between June is what followed: five years of finding their way to each other, a marriage, a cancer diagnosis that arrived before they could catch their breath, three years of waiting to hear two words the doctors said might not come. It is the story of children they were told to give up hoping for, who arrived anyway. Of faith that held when logic said to let go. Of a father's death, a grief that had no rehearsal, and of what it means to carry it together.This is not a book about a perfect love. It is a book about a real one.If you have loved someone through something hard, this book is for you.