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She washome.

An extraordinary true story of love, family, fatherhood — and the life that continues.

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A LOVE STORY, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE

I LOVE YOU.I CHOOSE YOU.I WILL COME HOME.ALWAYS.

“Those kisses carried the weight of what went unsaid.”

Elysha

THE WOMAN AT THE HEART OF THE STORY

She made the
ordinary
extraordinary.

This is not simply a story about loss. It is a story about a life vividly lived: falling in love, building a family, raising two boys and discovering what remains when the future changes without warning.

THE SHAPE OF HOPE

“What I have lived
is weather.”

Storms one day. Clear the next. Nothing that arrives on schedule. Nothing that graduates to a finished state.

FAMILY · FATHERHOOD · LEGACY

“We’re not just raising boys. We’re raising future adults who will carry what we teach into every relationship.”

— Elysha

LOVE IS BOTHACTIONAND FEELING.

WHEN CERTAINTY DISAPPEARS

THE GROUND
DISAPPEARS.

Life still requires being walked across.

THE BOOK IS HERE

This book
is happening.

Extracts, conversations, interviews, reviews, podcasts, bookshop sightings and the family at the centre of the story.

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FEATURE EXTRACT

Reader's Digest Australia

A six-page extract reaching readers across Australia and New Zealand.

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Paul Folino-Gallo
THE AUTHOR

Paul Folino-Gallo

INTERVIEWS · PODCASTS

Hear the story behind the story.

New conversations and media appearances will appear here as they go live.

FROM THE MEMOIR

“The more of you I can carry, the more of me there is left to do the carrying.”

NOT MOVING ON

I HAVE
MOVED WITH.

“I haven’t moved on, Elysha. I don’t think I will. I don’t think I should. But I have moved with.”

Paul Folino-Gallo, author of Remembering Elysha

PAUL FOLINO-GALLO

A father.
A husband.
A witness to
what remains.

Paul Folino-Gallo is a Sydney barrister and father of two. Remembering Elysha is his deeply personal account of love, family, fatherhood and learning to live alongside an absence that does not diminish.

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REMEMBERING ELYSHA

“We carry you with us,
not as a burden
but as the greatest privilege.”

Remembering Elysha book cover
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