SOLVED. Contemporary Coming of age - High schooler named Samantha (Sam) gets a lethal illness.

[clr]

this was a core memory for me and i really loved the book but it kind of faded out of my life :') would love it if you could help me!!

read this book around 2019-2020 (or early 2021). i remember very specifically that the book had a white cover and the title was spelled using pink or orange sticky notes folded/cut into the shapes of letters. the title took up most of the cover.

plot: sam kept a journal on her computer about her illness and that journal is the book. the illness in question i think was childhood alzheimer, it might've been niemann-pick type c, it definitely made her forget things. sam was a pro debater (her and her only friend were a debating team) and they were going to nationals or an important debating competition. sam kept her condition from her friend because she really wanted to participate in the competition, but she ended up forgetting her points in the middle and her friend was mad at her.

there was also a love interest but it didn't work out, in the end she started dating her distanced childhood best friend cooper or something like that.


//spoilers

in the end she did die, and her friends and cooper wrote in her diary document about how much they loved her and that was the end of the book.

[clr]

WAIT GUYS I FOUND THE BOOK BY SEARCHING NIEMANN-PICK TYPE C BOOKS IT'S The Memory Book i'm so relieved 😭 i encourage you guys to go read it bc it's a great book!!!

[Rainbowheart]

Great news, glad you found it!