How Can You Love Me?
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Last published Tue, Mar 2, 2021
Alice Carnetti has had just about every transplant you can think of. Heart? Check. Kidneys? Check. (Livers are regenerative.) She practically grew up in New York hospitals and all of the nurses and doctors are close friends - they even come to dinner. But Alice knows something inside her is still missing. She's lonely, but does not like being around people because she cannot stand how they look at her. How they view her and her scars.
Max Harrison's wife, the famed cardiologist, Henrietta Harrison, died three years ago and he cannot get over her death. There is a hole in his heart that nothing can fill, not even the workload he dumps on himself everyday. He blames himself, he blames life, and he wishes it were him instead of her.
Then he meets Alice. And things begin to change.
Together, can they heal their scarred hearts and look passed the secrets of their past? Or are some secrets too hard to bear?
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