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Stella is back at the hospital, her home away from home. She has cystic fibrosis, and while she’s often able to live a fairly normal life, she has needed to be in the hospital often enough over the years that she knows all the staff and how to decorate her room so it feels like her own. By nature over-the-top organized, Stella also has her medication and treatment regimen down to a science. And she knows the rules to keep herself as healthy as possible, which include staying at least 6 feet away from any other people with CF, because passing along infections to each other could be deadly. In Stella’s case, it could take away her chance of getting new lungs.
When Stella sees newcomer Will in her hospital, she can tell just the kind of person he is: a rebel who will ignore the rules as often as possible. He’s cute, but he’s not even trying to take good care of himself. Regimen? He doesn’t stick to one. He’s only there because his wealthy single mom has done everything in her power to put him in drug trial after drug trial around the globe. This time, however, Will is about to turn 18, and he fully intends to take charge of his life and go see the world, rather than be stuck in hospitals.
Even though the two teens can’t get closer to each other than 6 feet, they’re about to start rubbing off on each other. And eventually, Stella decides that after a lifetime of obeying the rules and trying to control her disease into submission, she’s going to steal back just one foot as she gets a little closer to falling in love.
Get ready for a sweet love story that tugs on the heart strings, because these two star-crossed lovers can never touch or plan for a future together. But they can learn from each other and maybe find happiness they couldn’t have had otherwise. I enjoyed Five Feet Apart and learned some more about CF; the book and movie version likely are doing good by raising awareness about the condition.
Rated: High. There are just under 10 instances of strong language and occasional uses of moderate and mild language. Sexual content is fairly minimal; there are references to a couple having sex but no details, and the main characters talk about it briefly.
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