My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me Free

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On the cusp of middle age, a newlywed journalist discovers and finishes the bucket list of her late free-spirited father.

Fifty-four adventures in six years. Thats what thirty-eight-year-old journalist Laura Carney embarked on when she discovered her late father Micks bucket list.

Killed in a car crash when Laura was twenty-five, Mick seemed lost forever. My Fathers List is the story of how one womanwith the help of family, friends, and even strangersfound the courage to go after her own dreams after realizing those of a beloved yet mysterious man. This is a story about secretsand the freedom we feel when we learn to trust again: in life, in love, and in a fathers lessons on how to fully live.

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A writer and magazine copy editor in New York, Laura Carney has been published by the Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Hill, Runners World, Good Housekeeping, The Fix, Upworthy, Maria Shrivers The Sunday Paper, and other places. She has worked as a copy editor in national magazinesprimarily womensfor twenty years, including Vanity Fair, GQ, People, and Good Housekeeping. This is her first book.