4 out of 5 stars
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A heartwarming tale of two different people who struggle to
do what they think is right for themselves and the people they love. How far would you go to protect the ones you
love and the choices we make?
Mara Nichols had it all but life throws her a big
curve. When her world starts to crumble
and she learns that she is slowly dying .
Her career as a lawyer starts to crumble, she becomes more aggravated
with her doctor husband over the simplest things and her young daughter starts
to not want to be seen with her public.
She has trouble sleeping and finds herself having “accidents”
in public and needing diapers, she knows her time is coming. Not wanting to stick around a few more years
and needing to be put away and watching her husband go through her decline she
decides to end her life on her birthday,
Trying to stay in some control before the day, she watches
the life she once known slowly disappear each day as she cannot do what she
used to do. We see her struggling to
cope and her quick decline.
Then there is Scott Coffman a middle school teacher whose
wife is expecting their first child.
They been foster parents to an eight old boy whose mom is in jail
sentence for drugs. And she is getting out soon and will be release back into
her custody. Scott finds it hard to say
goodbye to him as he is attached to him but he knows it was only temporary as
he must face the upcoming birth of their own child.
They each having five days left to cope with their situation
and move onward. We sometimes have to
let go in order to move on and grow. There
is no thing as the right decision but how we move on.
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