To Love and Let Go

To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go...it's the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime. While on her way to teach a yoga retreat in March 2014, Rachel Brathen collapses at an airport, brought to her knees by excruciating stomach pains. She is rushed to the hospital on the tiny island of Bonaire, and hours later forced to undergo surgery. When she wakes up from anesthesia, her boyfriend is weeping at her bedside. At the same time Rachel collapsed, her best friend, Andrea, crashed her car into a truck driving on the wrong side of the highway. Andrea spent eight hours fighting for her life while Rachel spent the same hours in a hospital bed in another country, moving through a pain no one could seem to explain. The moment Rachel's pain went away was the moment Andrea drew her last breath. Rachel and Andrea had a magical friendship. The kind of friendship that is forged in youth and grows into something deeper—a...