Yours, Everlasting is inspired by the real-life love story of Ron and Pam, whom I met in the 1980s when I was fourteen. What began with a simple hello grew into a friendship that lasted into adulthood.

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After Ron died of a heart attack in the late 1990s, I visited Pam and noticed a pile of worn envelopes containing the letters he had written to her almost daily during WW2. For the next twenty years, she lived alone, rereading his letters and longing for the day they would be reunited. Their enduring love and her profound grief left an indelible impression on me. Years later, those precious letters passed to me.

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Although the story is fiction, I have woven edited excerpts from Ron’s letters throughout the book. It has been an absolute privilege to read and share his words.