An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment he-d fallen in love for the first time.
As a child, Matt Hay didn-t know his hearing wasn-t the way everyone else processed sound-because of the workarounds he did to ?t in, even the school nurse didn-t catch his condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But by the time he was a prospective college student and couldn-t pass the entrance requirements for West Point, Hay-s condition, generated by a tumor, was unavoidable: his hearing was going, and fast.
A personal soundtrack was Hay-s determined compensation for his condition. As a typical Midwestern kid growing up in the 1980s whose life events were pegged to pop music, Hay planned to commit his favorite songs to memory. He prepared a mental playlist of the bands he loved and created a way to tap into his most resonant memories. And the track he needed to cement most clearly? The one he and his new girlfrie
