Eli's Heart

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In the 1950s, small town teenager KRISSY PORTER meets ELI LEVIN, a visiting piano prodigy born with a serious heart defect and not expected to live past the age of thirty. They play piano duets, talk about baseball, eat banana splits. Although their budding romance is ended by interference from Eli's family, the star-crossed sweethearts manage to find their way back to each other years later. They marry on Krissy's twentieth birthday while both are college students.The love of music they share is a vital part of their life together. Once he begins his career, Eli's rise is meteoric. Krissy, too, achieves a successful career in the world of music. Intensely devoted and passionate from the beginning, the couple is ever aware of their greatest challenge: living their best lives while never knowing when the various repairs to Eli's heart might give out.