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The Memories I Keep
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What if the last cruel thing you said to someone you loved became the one sentence you could never take back?
Fifteen-year-old Amy and Diego have always made sense to each other, even when they don't make sense to anyone else.
She is loud, alternative, insecure, and impossible to miss with her bright green backpack. He is quiet, confident, mysterious, and known for his books, his long dark hair, and the way he somehow always knows what she is thinking.
Their friendship begins during an eighth-grade trip to The Phantom of the Opera and grows through private walks home, inside jokes, music, handwritten stories, and a first kiss hidden between the shelves of a bookstore.
Then one winter morning changes everything.
After an argument leaves Amy wishing she had never met him, Diego is struck by a speeding car while crossing the street to their bus stop.
Amy watches it happen.
As Diego lies in a medically induced coma with a traumatic brain injury, Amy is left carrying crushing guilt, recurring nightmares, and the memories of a boy doctors cannot promise will ever walk, talk, or remember his old life again.
When Diego finally wakes, recovery becomes a new kind of beginning.
He must relearn pieces of the world he once knew, while Amy slowly realizes that loving him cannot mean forcing him to become the person he was before. And when Diego begins asking her to tell him about the memories he lost-including the kiss he desperately wishes he could remember-Amy becomes the keeper of a shared history only one of them can still reach.
Tender, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, The Memories I Keep is a YA coming-of-age novel about first love, traumatic brain injury, survivor's guilt, friendship, memory, and the kind of love that can change shape without ever disappearing.
Some memories are lost.
Some are rebuilt.
And some are worth keeping for both of you.
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