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The Distance We Crossed - A Memoir
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781968809928
Publisher: Oxfordbookwriters
Published: Jul 2 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What begins as a pen pal letter for a high school French project becomes a love story that spans oceans, decades, and the deepest tests of the human spirit.
In 1989, Keith Whitford a shy, awkward teenager from Texas writes to a young woman named Amelia living on the island of Cebu in the Philippines. He expects nothing more than a school project. What he receives instead is a letter that changes everything.
Over the next two years, through handwritten airmail letters and expensive payphone calls stretched across the Pacific, a profound love takes root. When Keith finally boards a plane to meet Amelia for the first time, he carries little more than a suitcase, a one-way heart, and a dream of building a life with someone he has never touched.
The Distance We Crossed is a sweeping memoir that follows Keith and Amelia through the exhilarating chaos of their first meeting in Manila, the challenge of navigating immigration, cultural differences, and the skepticism of family all the way through the joys of marriage, parenthood, and building a home together across two worlds.
But just when their family feels whole, fate intervenes. A routine procedure uncovers a cancer diagnosis that threatens everything they fought to build. Now Keith must face the hardest distance of all - the one between fear and survival - with Amelia, his warrior queen, by his side.
Tender, honest, and deeply human, this memoir is a testament to the extraordinary power of love to bridge any distance geographical, cultural, and even mortal.
For readers who believe that the right letter, sent at the right moment, can change the course of a life.
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