How have I not read this book before? Beautifully written, heartbreaking and hopeful- Jesse and Leslie will stay with me forever. I was 13 when this book was published- I don't think my 13 year old self would have been ready to read this, but at 53, maybe still not prepared but I was able to let the words in and those words built a bridge...
P.158- "Sometimes... you need to give people something that's for them- not just something that makes you feel good giving it." "It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned to him in vision and strength."