The Bucket List

EMILY PETERSON'S BUCKET LIST

1) Go on a safari
2) Go skydiving
3) High five a stranger in New York City
4) Meet a celebrity
5) Travel Europe
6) Ski in Austria
7) Go to a haunted house
8) Take a selfie with a stranger
9) Meet Great Aunt Ethel
10) Get married

Emily smiled at the bucket list she'd created twelve years ago, when she was just 15. It wasn't like she was ever going to get to do any of this stuff. She was just diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, or ALL. It was uncommon in adults, but deadly. She had two years left, max.

Ryan Sawyer had had a crush on Emily Peterson since the sixth grade. Now he was 27, and a businessman in New York. When he had logged into the social media website, MyLife, his heart skipped a beat. One of the first posts to appear was one from Emily: "Great. The tests came back positive. I have two years to live. Diagnosis: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia."