Heartstrong

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It is just so clear that they are such a beautiful family and I think it was really special that they shared some intimate family memories - I feel honored to have read them. I used to think that everything happens for a reason, but I have known a lot of people that have gone through really horrible things and losing their lives young over the past 2-3 years, so my mind shift has definitely changed to sometimes really shit things just happen to the best of people which just breaks my heart.

Family, friends, lawyers and doctors helped to give Ellidy the chance to keep a small part of Chumpy alive. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I wish she would’ve just owned that instead of trying to tell me her upbringing/past was as bad as mine.Heartstrong***is an unforgettable book about love, joy, grief, hope and finding a way to keep going in the darkest of times.

I probably wouldn’t have plucked this off the bookshelf of my own volition and now I can appreciate what the term “book hangover” really means.One of my favourite parts of this story was when Chumpy's dad Chris wrote a few chapters on Chumpy's upbringing and their life as a family. I do want to start following her story on social media but as for the book, not a 'good read' at all. it was the first time I felt that anything was added that was not along the line of what a "good bloke/life of the wedding" he was an individual. I listen to Ellidy (and Chloe’s podcast) so I know what a wrench this was to record but Ellidy, thank you for persevering. A quote that really stuck with me from this book was 'a flame that burns twice as bright, burns half as long'.