Product Description
Sometimes the most unexpected chapters of our lives begin when we think our story has already been told.Dave Smith considers himself a very fortunate man. He has had two great loves in his life.Pam, This Is Eleanor is the candid, warm, and deeply personal story of those loves—and of the family, friendship, loss, resilience, and second chances that shaped the life around them.Dave looks back on growing up in Hawaiʻi, building a family and a career, enduring successes and failures, and sharing a long marriage with Pam through the joys and difficulties that come with a life lived together. He writes openly about family, faith, difficult choices, grief, and the experiences that changed both the people he loved and the man he became.Then came a loss that seemed to close an enormous chapter of his life.But life had another surprise waiting.Decades after high school, Eleanor—a woman Dave had known about as a teenager but never really known—reentered his life. What followed was unexpected: friendship, companionship, laughter, love, and the discovery that growing older does not mean life's possibilities are exhausted.Told with honesty, humor, affection, and the perspective that can only come from looking back across many decades, Pam, This Is Eleanor is not a story about a perfect life. It is about a real one—the people we love, the mistakes we make, the losses we survive, the remarkable events that shape our lives, and the possibility that another chapter may still be waiting.For anyone who has ever wondered whether it is too late for something wonderful to happen, this is a story of love, loss, and the extraordinary gift of a second chance. Read more
