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Based on her ""Modern Love"" piece (""She Put her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box""), this extraordinary memoir tells the astonishing story of a mother's last gifts to her daughter, and the wisdom and love she bestowed upon her from beyond the grave.Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston's mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer when Gwen was just three years old. Defying the odds, she lived another eight years--during which time she filled a chest with gifts and letters to Gwen and her brother, Jamie, for every major milestone and birthday through age thirty. The day Gwen got her driver's license. The day she graduated from high school. Gwen is now in her thirties and, when Did I Ever Tell You? begins, three unopened boxes remain: engagement, marriage, and first baby. Two decades after her passing, Gwen's mother's extraordinary efforts created a lifelong conversation beyond the grave. Did I Ever Tell You? is Crying in H Mart meets The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs. This is not just a gorgeously written mother-daughter story. It's also the story of a family riven by grief and mental illness, and a story of a young woman's navigation through both. It's a book about family and legacy; and it's one that emphatically declares, as Gwen mother does in a particularly powerful letter, that ""Love is stronger than death.""

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Genevieve Kingston is the author of four plays and three one-acts. Her essay, ""She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box,"" appeared in 2021 in the New York Times's ""Modern Love"" column. Did I Ever Tell You? is her first book. She holds bachelors degrees in theater and linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA degree in acting from Brown University/Trinity Repertory Theater. Genevieve Kingston is the author of four plays and three one-acts. Her essay, ""She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box,"" appeared in 2021 in the New York Times's ""Modern Love"" column. Did I Ever Tell You? is her first book. She holds bachelors degrees in theater and linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA degree in acting from Brown University/Trinity Repertory Theater.

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