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Live Your Life
- My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero
- Narrated by: Amanda Kloots
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Performed by the author featuring original music by Nick Cordero.
Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star, and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with COVID-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.
In March 2020, Broadway star and Tony Award nominee Nick Cordero was hospitalized for what he and his wife, Amanda Kloots, believed to be a severe case of pneumonia. Entering the hospital, they had every reason to believe that Nick - a young father and otherwise healthy man - would return home. After an eventual diagnosis of COVID-19 that led to Nick’s being placed on a ventilator, Amanda took to documenting their journey on social media, showing the dangers COVID-19 posed to everyone, regardless of age. Her updates quickly captivated millions, inspiring people around the globe to dance each day to Nick’s song “Live Your Life” and offer positive thoughts and prayer. When he passed away after 95 grueling days in the ICU, the world grieved for Amanda, her infant son, Elvis, and the future COVID-19 had snatched away from them.
Live Your Life is the story of Nick and Amanda’s life together - of their beautiful relationship, of Nick’s dramatic fight for survival, of those sudden tragic months that permanently changed her world and ours - and of their interrupted future as a family. From the confusing early days of his illness to searching for signs of hope in every update from the doctors to the healing sound of Elvis’s laughter, Amanda details how she approached even the most devastating moments with the personal optimism and faith that have shaped her life. Written with her sister Anna Kloots, who was with her every step of this journey, Live Your Life explores how Amanda’s willingness to accept help from an entire community of people - friends, family, and even total strangers - played a vital role in enduring this hardship. In the process, she offers a touching meditation on how even the worst times have silver linings that deepen our connections to the world around us and to the people who matter most.
What emerges is an inspiring and unexpectedly uplifting message for life in the time of COVID, a vision of courage for anyone coping with overwhelming loss or the collective trauma of what the pandemic has taken from us. A poignant reflection on love, hope, motherhood, and the transformational power of music, Live Your Life is a love letter to Nick and a reminder that, sometimes, celebrating life today is the only path through tomorrow’s darkness.
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- Sarah Willson
- 17-01-2023
WOW! What an amazing listen.
This was incredible. I absolutely loved listening to Amanda read Live Your Life. What a beautiful tribute to Nick, and a wonderful keepsake for Elvis.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-10-2021
Absolutely beautiful.
I wholeheartedly recommend.
The story of Amanda and Nick, their love their life together is truly beautiful.
Hearing how Amanda fought to save her husband was truly special.
Her grace, strength, optimism and love is evident.
The writing and audio is outstanding.
I loved listening to their truly magical and also heartbreaking story.
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- Rebecca Myers
- 18-06-2021
Heartbreaking yet inspiring
Be prepared to binge listen to this book. I could not put it down. This book was written so well that I feel like I know Amanda and Nick and their families. I also felt the grief of their loss.
Thank you for sharing your heart wrenching story. You are incredible.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-07-2021
Heartbreaking and heartwarming
I’d been following the story like many others during the midst of the pandemic last year but like Amanda & Anna have mentioned, didn’t quite know the full story. The book is full of heartbreaking moments but also heartwarming moments. You feel a part of their story, what they went through is perfectly interwoven with memories from throughout their love story. It was a wonderful listen, keep the tissues at the ready, Amanda tells it beautifully and sometimes it’s as if she’s narrating it at the moment it happened, her emotions are palpable. Worth the listen, you’ll smile and laugh too!
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-06-2021
Makes you want to live your life!
This book makes you appreciate life, and the time you have with your loved ones. Thank you Amanda for sharing your story, outlook and energy with the world-Live your life!
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- Anonymous User
- 07-09-2021
Just… awed
Nights In White Satin… Going to California…
This part gave me insane chills. THEY ARE AMAZING SONGS! So fitting for that moment.
I cried most of the way throughout this beautifully written and read book. Amanda you are wonderful, I truly wish you & Elvis well.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-08-2021
This book has changed my life
What an incredible book, I cried and laughed so much I felt like I went through this journey with Amanda and her whole family.
As a nurse, this has taught me so much and as a person that was always too scared to chase my dreams, it’s given me the boost I needed. I also approach each obstacle with positivity and gratitude! Thank you AK for this book! Thank you nick! ❤️❤️❤️
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- svetlana
- 04-06-2022
Pure positivity
Amanda’s story was so difficult to read, but so inspiring and positive that it’s hard to put the book down. She experiences a life time of emotions in a condensed and intense time frame you find yourself riding with her as if you’re beside her, willing a different ending to what we know.
Hearing the story being read by Amanda brings home the grave reality of her experience. She embodies positivity like no other, her gift to us was the telling of her story and bringing awareness to all that Covid is real and not to be taken lightly. Nicks life was amazing and it did not deserve the ending he got. The rainbow at the end of his story is that the world gets to enjoy his music, his legacy continues with Elvis and Amanda brightens our days with her smile and pure positivity.
Loved listening through tears at times, would recommend this book to every person on the planet especially if they’re looking for hope and positivity.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-07-2021
Awe-inducing
Amanda’s story inspires me to change my life for the better. Nick was a fighter and we should fight for our lives everyday just like him.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-01-2022
Could not stop listening!
after following Nick's journey on Amanda's social media, through his battle with covid and the ongoing issues he was facing, This was one book I wanted to read. listening to the passion in Amanda's voice, you could feel the emotion and the journey they were on. Couldn't stop listening!
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