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An incredibly vulnerable self-portrait of life, death, grief, love, regret, and adolescence relayed with poignancy and humor. Letts' perspective transcends just her experience. Sometimes Madison allowed herself to think the thoughts you're not supposed to think. Quietly, she'd let her mind slip and imagine a world after he died. It's funny, the way your imagination will alter reality. There's a fine line between denial and hope... Madison fell in love with a boy named Knox when she was a junior in college. He opened car doors for her, he brought her coffee in bed, and he called her baby. Knox and Madison talked about getting married one day and planned to move to New York together after college. Then, a year into their relationship, doctors found a tumor in Knox's brain. After Knox underwent a craniotomy to remove the deadly cancer, he was never the same. Madison spent two years watching as he endured monthly chemotherapies and weekly seizures until it all began to feel normal. As she furniture shopped and decorated and set up her new apartment in New York City, Knox learned to speak and use a fork again. As she interviewed for her first job, Knox fought to stay alive. In this coming-of-age story, Madison processes profound pain in the wake of loss, while sharing her brutally honest--and often intrusive--thoughts about the universal experiences of falling in love, growing up, battling insecurity and regret, and deciphering the meaning of life.

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Madison Letts paints a picture of love, loss, and rebirth-coiling you into the unfiltered truths of what it means to grieve and how to allow yourself to move on. - YSENIA VALDEZ, EDITOR Every able-being will feel when reading this book. Letts' insights on the self are intimate and revelatory with truth and heart on every page.- CAROLINE PERROTT, EDITOR IN CHIEF, THE ATLANTAN Breathtakingly raw and relatable. A story of great loss and even greater hope that you won't want to put down. - EMMA NOYES, AUTHOR OF GUYS GIRL A deeply honest portrait of young love living alongside profound pain. - QC EXCLUSIVE This story is a powerful and heartbreaking collection of memories, capturing vignettes of life and young love at its most fragile and beautiful. - CURRIE ENGEL, EDITOR AND JOURNALIST Poignant, heartbreaking and a testament of love. Madison Letts masterfully weaves a story of intense love, the devastation of cancer, and ultimately, hope. - BLAIR FARRIS, EDITOR IN CHIEF, PEACHY THE MAGAZINE

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Madison Letts is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer of the Knox Martin Foundation for Brain Cancer Research, a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding innovative research on Glioblastoma-the most aggressive and under-researched form of brain cancer.Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, Madison received her BFA from the University of Georgia. She now lives in Brooklyn with her boyfriend and their two cats, Bug and Taika.I Don't Want You To Regret Anything is her debut memoir.

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