Laurie Luongo

Life, Loss and Love: Poems of Prayer and Promise Laurie Luongo

This book of poetry is almost fifty years in the making and covers more than three decades of writings and close to forty years of friendship.

Laurie and Lucas became best friends after meeting in Junior High. Both were good students who enjoyed writing and reading. Separately, they started writing poetry and other works and vowed to one day publish the writings.

The years went on and by and Lucas, paralyzed as a teenager, died unexpectedly at age 50 in 2002. Laurie continued working in her professional career in Human Resources until late 2016. A few months later, her beloved Mother succumbed to Alzheimer's. Laurie created her bucket list. One of her items was to publish this book.

Laurie compiled many of her poems and most of Luke's writings along with his gratitude journal, which is part of this book. It truly was a labor of love.