title: For the Love of Aimee: A Memoir
author: Julie Matsushima
description: Aimee and her twin sister were the first grandchildren born to Julie Matsushima, but the familys joy at the birth quickly turned to panic when Aimee was diagnosed with irreparable brain damage. From those first heartbreaking days of Aimees life, as Julie sat at her bedside in the neonatal intensive care unit, a special bond formed between them. Even at only a day or two old, Aimee drew Julie in with a responsiveness that seemed to defy her grim diagnosis.For the Love of Aimee invites you to share in the disappointments, challenges, and amazing achievements Aimee and Julie experience as this grandmother and granddaughter embark on a journey to find a breakthrough for Aimee. As they travel around the world, seeking treatment and meeting many other families with children with disabilities, Aimees enthusiasm, confidence, sense of humor, and positivity profoundly affected all who witnessin disbeliefher astounding accomplishments.This incredible book will move and inspire you, particularly if your life has been touched by a child with special needs. Aimees extraordinary story shows that, without a doubt, supportive and involved parents and grandparents make every difference in the lives of children with disabilities.
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  [About the Authors](contents.xhtml#c_ata)
  
  
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  [DAVID](http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidthurlo?utm_source=ebook&utm_medium=adcard&utm_term=ebookreaders&utm_content=davidthurlo_authorpage_macdotcom&utm_campaign=9781250029010)
  and [AIMÉE
  THURLO](http://us.macmillan.com/author/aimeethurlo?utm_source=ebook&utm_medium=adcard&utm_term=ebookreaders&utm_content=aimeethurlo_authorpage_macdotcom&utm_campaign=9781250029010)
  have, together and separately, written more than seventy novels. Their books
  have been sold worldwide in more than eighteen countries and have received the
  Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, a Willa Cather Award for Contemporary
  Fiction, and the New Mexico Book Award for Mystery and Suspense. Aimée Thurlo
  was born in Havana, Cuba, and passed away in 2014. David Thurlo was raised on
  the Navajo Nation in Shiprock. He now lives in New Mexico with his two
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