For years, this community has helped prove something powerful:

A story can do more than stay alive.

It can move.

It can reach someone who needs it.

It can open a conversation that might not have happened otherwise.

It can turn love into action.

That is what you helped make happen with Keith Milano’s story.

The Power of This Community

Through the Keith Milano Memorial Fund, this community has helped support mental health awareness with the generosity of authors, the content of bloggers, the heart of readers, paired with the belief that stories can make a difference.

Books have helped us raise money.

Posts have helped spread the word.

Authors have donated their proceeds.

Readers have shown up with open hearts.

And little by little, year after year, this community has helped carry Keith’s name forward.

Keith’s Story Has Reached a New Page

Larry Sprung has written a chapter in Even More Than Money: Five Ways to Design Your Financial Life called “Why Didn’t I Know He Could Die?”

You can find the stroy on page 151 in the Money is for… Enduring section.

And that word, enduring……

Enduring is not only about getting through the hardest parts of life.

It is about what we choose to do next. It is about the love we keep giving.

The conversations we keep having. The people we keep reaching. The work we keep supporting.

Why This Matters

This chapter shares Keith’s story through the lens of money, meaning, and legacy.

Not money as a number on a statement. Not money as something to chase for the sake of having more.

Money as something that can help support a mission.

Money as something that can fund awareness, education, research, advocacy, and hope.

Money as something that can help a family, and a community…..carry forward what matters most.

That is what makes this chapter feel so connected to the book community and our work at Shh Moms Reading.

Because this community already knows that books can do more than entertain us.

They can gather people. They can raise money. They can start conversations. They can make someone feel less alone.

They can help a name become a movement.

Grab Your Copy

Even More Than Money released on July 21st and is available online and at most bookstores.

When you get your copy, we hope you will turn to “Why Didn’t I Know He Could Die?”

Read it for Keith.

Read it for the families still searching for words.

Read it for the reminder that love can become action.

And read it knowing that this community has been part of carrying that legacy forward.