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The Summer We Almost Had: A Novel of First Love, Lost Time, and Second Chances
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 508
Weight: 0.99
Height: 1.26 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
They lost twenty-five years. They will not waste what remains.
At fourteen, Daniel Reyes and Angela Whitmore thought they had an entire summer ahead of them.
They found each other in classrooms, long walks, stolen fries, terrible blue raspberry Slushies, and the small moments that become enormous when you are young.
Then Daniel left for Mexico.
When he returned, Angela was gone.
Her family had sent her back to England. Phone numbers changed. Letters went unanswered. Addresses stopped working. And somehow, the person each had expected to find again became the person neither could reach.
Twenty-five years later, Angela finally finds Daniel.
But their second chance comes with a devastating limit.
Daniel is dying.
Now the life they almost had must fit into whatever time remains: conversations postponed for decades, ordinary mornings they never shared, arguments they never got to have, and a love that survived without either of them knowing what to call it.
Tender, funny, heartbreaking, and deeply human, The Summer We Almost Had is a novel about first love, missed years, second chances, grief, and the people who remain part of us even after life carries us somewhere else.
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