Ava is scared to live because she knows if she does, she won't want to die. She lives with a routine to prepare her for her deathbed. Miles Doesn't believe in anything other than fate. Avalon Wilson falls for Miles Ross more and more each day . They go on adventures, they explore deeper within themselves. They learn to live and to love. Ava is in remission for about a year before the cancer comes back very aggressively. She stops chemotherapy because it's draining and she starts writing letters to her friends and family. They were placed neatly in a box labeled "open when I'm gone". She gave miles her book of observations and his letters were written in it. At the funeral they all read the letters she had written to the in loving memory of her