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Live Now: How I Found Purpose, Love, and Healing in the Face of a Terminal Illness

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Russ Symmes would want you to know one thing: No matter what you are facing right now, live full out. For him, it was cancer. He turned a three-month prognosis into a decade of purpose, healing and finding love.  

Inside these pages, you'll discover:

How to navigate through life in the midst of a life-changing diagnosis.
A champion who taught wellness and reinvention through his poetic words, actions and beliefs.
A couple who said yes to love despite the odds.  

 Filled with Russ’ journal entries, intimate poetry, and life’s unexpected gifts, whatever your circumstance, you will be inspired by one’s man’s journey to never give up.


209 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 24, 2019

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October 30, 2019
This book left me in tears multiple times, and it was from how Russ could be such an amazing person. It felt like riding along on his and Louisa’s journey, and the vulnerability shared was moving.
At first the poetry had me saying “hmmm” and by the end it became such a wonderful expression of the feelings and experiences he was going through. I recommend this book to anyone looking for inspiration on who you can be no matter your situation.
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