During the summer Adam was 16, he caught a virus which lodged in his heart muscle and injured his heart permanently. He eventually required a heart transplant and finally had one at the age of 26. During the heart transplant operation, the surgeon said he had never seen such a sick heart (almost the size of a soccer ball) come out of a living human being. Later he also said he had never seen such a perfect heart go in as a replacement. Adam weaves a story from what he lived and what he imagined. He passed away, due to heart failure at the age of 31. His book was published posthumously by his father.
