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i don’t remember the moment someone mentioned this book but soon after our copies started coming in. a few at a time and then each time i checked the order screen, i saw that 5 or 6 more copies were on order. i was looking for something to read and this caught my attention.

emma and dexter meet in july of 1988. july 15 to be exact. one random night. one night it is. there is a connection that is worth noticing but the night stands alone.

until july 15 of the next year..and we will check in to what is happening in the lives of these two. one day each year–july 15. they live in different places, they date other people, their jobs flop, life happens. at times there lives are intertwining, at times they are not in contact. regardless, you may catch emma’s mind floating to dexter but not always at the same time that dexter’s mind floats to emma.

i found myself cheering for them to find one another as they did that first night. i’d give it a year and i would be happy with their admirable friendship.

after finishing, i thought long and hard about focusing in on one day each year of someone’s life, perhaps my own. what would i see? what would be the same? what would be different?

and i think that’s the comforting thought in one day. there is that one person that is consistent in your life. you may not talk every single moment of every day of every year but should something happen and you need someone, you know it is them you want by your side. there are those friends who you need to be glued to your side when you have joys, sorrows, and heartaches in your life.

emma filled that gap for dexter just as dexter filled that gap for emma. em, dex. dex, em.

so i say read it…today…tomorrow…one day.

-quinn