Sim One: A Love and Then-What-Happens Story

We spend our whole lives searching for "the one." Hoping, even for a little while, to make that deep connection, where a lover becomes a best friend and soulmate, someone you can share any experience with and lean on. A life mate. Americans Simone and Tom had a fling (she made the first move)...and found true, bubbly love with each other. Their neuroses meshed nicely, their values matched, they had fun together, so they married, the second time for both. They built separate careers, merged them successfully after 15 years, began training others worldwide, purchased a second home in southern France, in a wine-making village, and vacationed there for 20 years, exploring a land occupied by humans back to the Stone Age, eating well, writing books.

One morning back in America, Simone gets out of bed, pads into her spacious home office, opens her email, and finds she cannot read. The episode lasts less than 24 hours. Her reading capability returns slowly but surely. Within days she's asking about clients and "how soon can I drive?"

But life changes completely, just that fast. There's a clear diagnosis. It's bad. There's no treatment, no cure. Then Covid shuts down the world. And an 18-month medical adventure begins.

Told through a series of notes and emails, Tom shares his raw, humorous, and heartfelt declarations on what it’s like living, loving, and losing "the one," Sim One, to a brain disease, common but little known: cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a cause of stroke. Sim One is a love letter-meets-memoir that recounts honestly what it means to love—and keep loving—as two people face losing it all.