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My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir
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About My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir
In this transcendent memoir about survival, love, and the power of female friendship, award-winning memoirist Amy Silverstein (Sick Girl) tells the story of an extraordinary group of women who surrounded and supported her through the long, emotional fight to stay alive as she waited for her second heart transplant in twenty-five years.Nearly twenty-five years after receiving her first heart transplant, Amy Silverstein's donor heart began to fail. If she wanted to survive, she needed a new heart, and she needed it soon. Her best chance was to uproot her life and move across the country to California, 3,000 miles away from everything she knew in New York. When she told her friends, there was only one reaction: ''I'll be there.'' Nine remarkable women -- Joy, Jill, Leja, Jody, Lauren, Robin, Valerie, Ann, and Jane -- put demanding jobs and family obligations on hold to fly across the country and be by Amy's side. Creating a calendar spreadsheet, the women -- some strangers to one another until this moment -- worked together to ensure that Amy had constant support as she battled for her life. For the love of their friend, they made the sacrifices necessary to be present in her time of greatest need. As Amy struggled through acute heart failure, her friends brought decorations to brighten her spirits and mud masks and silky pajamas to distract her. They stayed up at night with her, when the pain left her unable to sleep or breathe, rubbing her back to soothe her. And amidst the grief and pain, as Amy's heart waned ever closer to the end, these women saw for the first time the true measure of their friend's strength -- and responded in kind. My Glory Was I Had Such Friends is a beacon of hope and a tribute to these women and the intense hours they spent together -- close companions whose strength carried another's life through the darkest time. Candid and heartrending, it is a once-in-a-lifetime story of connection, emp
