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A Lot Like Fun — Only Different

$19.95

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Proceeds from A Lot Like Fun - Only Different are donated to:

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

“It’s a story about friendship, about being there when it’s needed the most.

Clearing out the high school with a smoke-bomb prank in our senior year, raising a family of pigs in a village yard, saving a drowning man in Singapore, and overcoming the trauma of a childhood abduction are part of my friend, Chris Kelley’s past. I knew little about them. To me, Chris was the guy who was always up for doing two fun things in one day (sometimes three).

When Chris was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in his mid-fifties, it signaled the end to what we had taken for granted. It changed our friendship. No longer would I follow him on epic adventures he planned. These days, I take him for hikes, hold both sides of our conversations, and help him across a two-foot stream. But because I didn’t want to forget the times we’d had together, I started to write, and as a result found out there was more to my friend.

In A Lot Like Fun ― Only Different I share incredible stories of our improbable friendship where Chris met life head on while I asked, “Are you sure we want to do this?” It contains dozens of stories and photos from our past that contrast ‘current day’ Chris, diminished by Pick’s, with the Chris I knew so well. No longer are we barreling down the 219 to ski or mountain biking the Bent Rim Trail, and celebrating with a ‘couple-tree’ beers. We aren’t breaking trails with our snowshoes in the Adirondack High Peaks or cruising through Appalachia on the way to a 24-hour mountain bike race. 

We still get together. And I look forward to those times. It’s a lot like fun ― only different. Chris greets me with a smile and a hearty laugh. He doesn’t speak, but I know if he could, he’d tell me, ‘Thanks for coming out, Jack. Today was great.’ And then it breaks my heart when he stands next to my car, wanting to ride home with me and I have to tell him, ‘Chris, you're riding with your brother. I’ll see you next week.’ And I hear his words from the past. ‘Good deal.’” - Jack Livingston

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A Lot Like Fun — Only Different

$19.95

Tax is included in purchase price.

Proceeds from A Lot Like Fun - Only Different are donated to:

The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

“It’s a story about friendship, about being there when it’s needed the most.

Clearing out the high school with a smoke-bomb prank in our senior year, raising a family of pigs in a village yard, saving a drowning man in Singapore, and overcoming the trauma of a childhood abduction are part of my friend, Chris Kelley’s past. I knew little about them. To me, Chris was the guy who was always up for doing two fun things in one day (sometimes three).

When Chris was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in his mid-fifties, it signaled the end to what we had taken for granted. It changed our friendship. No longer would I follow him on epic adventures he planned. These days, I take him for hikes, hold both sides of our conversations, and help him across a two-foot stream. But because I didn’t want to forget the times we’d had together, I started to write, and as a result found out there was more to my friend.

In A Lot Like Fun ― Only Different I share incredible stories of our improbable friendship where Chris met life head on while I asked, “Are you sure we want to do this?” It contains dozens of stories and photos from our past that contrast ‘current day’ Chris, diminished by Pick’s, with the Chris I knew so well. No longer are we barreling down the 219 to ski or mountain biking the Bent Rim Trail, and celebrating with a ‘couple-tree’ beers. We aren’t breaking trails with our snowshoes in the Adirondack High Peaks or cruising through Appalachia on the way to a 24-hour mountain bike race. 

We still get together. And I look forward to those times. It’s a lot like fun ― only different. Chris greets me with a smile and a hearty laugh. He doesn’t speak, but I know if he could, he’d tell me, ‘Thanks for coming out, Jack. Today was great.’ And then it breaks my heart when he stands next to my car, wanting to ride home with me and I have to tell him, ‘Chris, you're riding with your brother. I’ll see you next week.’ And I hear his words from the past. ‘Good deal.’” - Jack Livingston

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