BEHIND THE FRAGMENTS

A NOTE FROM WESLEY

The Life We Never Lived is a work of fiction. But not everything that inspired it was imagined.

Behind each fragment is a real memory—a place, an object, a conversation, or a moment—that somehow found its way into the novel. These stories aren't explanations of which parts are true or fictional. The characters and their story are their own. But these are pieces of the real life that helped shape the fiction.

I'm sharing them here, one at a time, exclusively with readers who subscribe to From the Desk, my newsletter.

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