They Knew Love

They Knew Love

Love was their revolution. Grief became their legacy.

Michelle Ybarista knows how to tell stories—just not her own. A fierce Afro-Latina writer from the Bronx, she pours her heart into journalism class, where words are her armor against the world. But when she’s assigned to profile Logan Trinidad—an 18-year-old firefighter recruit with cerebral palsy and stage 3 kidney cancer—she stumbles into a love story no headline could capture.

Logan is all contradictions: a small-town Indiana boy with a city-hardened smirk, a cancer patient who cracks Napoleon Dynamite jokes during chemo, a disability advocate who refuses to be anyone’s inspiration porn. Their connection is instant—bonding over shared birthdays, mixtapes, and the kind of dark humor that only makes sense when you’ve stared death in the face.

But as Logan’s health declines, forces work to tear them apart. His overprotective mother files a restraining order, blaming Michelle for "stressing him to death." School rumors paint her as a villain. And when Logan’s condition takes a sudden turn, Michelle is barred from his hospital room, then his funeral—left to grieve a love the world refuses to acknowledge.

Until she writes one last article.

How to Love Someone Who’s Dying goes viral after her death, sparking conversations about mental health, disability rights, and the cruel math of young love in impossible circumstances. Told in raw, lyrical prose, They Knew Love is: