Face your Fear - The Book of Regine
A couple of months later she creates the blog "Face your fear," which soon becomes one of the most visited blogs in Norway. Here she writes: "Death is scary. It’s what I fear most of all, just now. I don’t want to leave my friends and my family. I don’t want to leave them behind, sad. I want to live more, experience more."
Fortunately, Regine did get to experience more, live more. Through rock concerts, her own photo exhibition,” the best birthday party ever" and cherished moments with family and friends, she managed to fulfil many of her dreams in her short life. In December 2009, Regine died. Family and friends lost a warm, wise, and funny girl – a girl who also made a deep impact on strangers. Regine’s last wish was to have her blog published as a book. Many of her readers have shared that wish. The result has become a warm, caring and reflected book about life and death, friendship and love, and about the way in which a young girl faces her own fear. For many she became a role model.
This book is based on Regine’s blog. It is an unusually strong story, clearly bearing the mark of Regine’s own narrative. The text is complemented with intense photos, most of them taken by Regine. The texts and photos show how talented she was. More than 30.000 people, from young teenagers and upwards, have responded to Regine’s blog. A couple of hundred thousand people visited her blog. Regine received many deeply insightful comments from a broad range of the population. Selections of these are presented after some of her entries. In addition, her mother and sister, her best friend and several others have written personal good-bye messages. The book also includes some of Regine’s unpublished texts.
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