![]() ![]() With two kisses and an open heart, he shows how love can sustain us." - Jeffrey Zaslow, New York Times bestselling coauthor of THE LAST LECTURE, "You won't feel the slightest bit of pity for this unintended single father. Some of your tears will be for the beauty of love and its miraculous power to heal even the deepest wounds."-John Grogan, New York Times bestselling author of MARLEY & ME, "In Matthew Logelin's honest and poignant story, we learn a great many lessons about the fragility of life, and about the strength we all can summon to move forward. It will make you cry but not only out of sadness. Read this book and put your life back in perspective." -Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling author of HEROES FOR MY SON, "TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is less a conscious piece of writing than a spontaneous eruption from the heart. ![]() But how can you possibly call depressing what is so filled with love and life and the unstoppable message of how lucky we are to have what we have. ![]() So vivid, so powerful and pitch-perfect, is his evocation of his beloved Liz that I could hear her laughter and see her face for days after putting the book down."-Claire Fontaine, national bestselling author of COME BACK, "No one wants to read a depressing book. You'll be cheering Matt Logelin on page after page, laughing and crying with him- and falling in love with Madeline." -Christine Coppa, author of RATTLED!, "Almost unparalleled as a raw and unapologetic portrait of grief, TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is a stunning testimony of the kind of love - fated, magnificent - that inspires novels. Some of your tears will be for the beauty of love and its miraculous power to heal even the deepest wounds." -John Grogan, New York Times bestselling author of MARLEY & ME, "You won't feel the slightest bit of pity for this unintended single father. So vivid, so powerful and pitch-perfect, is his evocation of his beloved Liz that I could hear her laughter and see her face for days after putting the book down." -Claire Fontaine, national bestselling author of COME BACK, "TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is less a conscious piece of writing than a spontaneous eruption from the heart. "Almost unparalleled as a raw and unapologetic portrait of grief, TWO KISSES FOR MADDY is a stunning testimony of the kind of love- fated, magnificent- that inspires novels. In honoring Liz's legacy, heartache has become solace. In this memoir, Matt shares bittersweet and often humorous anecdotes of his courtship and marriage to Liz of relying on his newborn daughter for the support that she unknowingly provided and of the extraordinary online community of strangers who have become his friends. Though confronted with devastating grief and the responsibilities of a new and single father, Matt did not surrender to devastation he chose to keep moving forward-to make a life for Maddy. Just twenty-seven hours later, Liz suffered a pulmonary embolism and died instantly, without ever holding the daughter whose arrival she had so eagerly awaited. Liz's pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world. After years of long-distance dating, the pair finally settled together in Los Angeles, and they had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home, and a baby girl on the way. Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. Matt Logelin writes a courageous and searingly honest memoir about the first year of his life following the birth of his daughter and the death of his wife.
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