"This work is adapted from Salt in My Soul: an Unfinished Life, originally published in hardcover by Spiegel & Grau, New York, in 2019 and in paperback by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2020"--Title page verso

"Mallory Smith shares her innermost thoughts while living with a terminal illness"--

"We are the writers of our own story. That our story will someday end is inevitable for all of us, but how we get there is not. From the age of three, Mallory Smith knew she was living on borrowed time. A cystic fibrosis diagnosis will do that. But for the twenty-five years that Mallory lived, she lived. She played sports, went to parties, attended college, and fell in love. And during it all, she wrote. In thousands of journal entries, Mallory captured her joy and worry, her heartbreak and humor. She talked about her love of the ocean and the environment, of volleyball and writing. Her disease was a big part of her life, but there was also much more. Mallory embraced every moment until her death, when she succumbed to complications from a superbug. She lived because she knew something that most people take a lifetime to figure out: life isn't about how much time you have; it's about what you do with it." -- front flap

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