Two Kisses for Maddy · A Memoir of Loss & Love
- Authors
- Logelin, Matthew
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Tags
- widowers , biography & autobiography , personal memoirs , mothers - death - psychological aspects , loss (psychology) , spouses - death - psychological aspects , logelin; matthew - family , matthew - marriage , infants - care - united states , bereavement , general , biography , matthew - family , infants , matthew , single parent , mothers , single fathers , spouses , marriage , logelin; matthew , single fathers - united states , psychological aspects , death , widowers - united states , family & relationships , infants & toddlers , life stages , logelin; matthew - marriage , grief , logelin , parenting , united states , case studies
- ISBN
- 9780446564304
- Date
- 2011-04-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.07 MB
- Lang
- en
**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.**
Matt and Liz Logelin were high school sweethearts. 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. Liz's pregnancy was rocky, but they welcomed Madeline, beautiful and healthy, into the world. 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.
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.
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. In honoring Liz's legacy, heartache has become solace.