So he started with a blank piece of paper. "There are lots of things you should know about me," he wrote. "My name is Matthew Giarrano. I am eight years old. My birthday is in six days. I will be nine." This is the story of those six days, the last six days of Matthew's brief life. It is the story of a boy and his family and the secret that binds them together. It is the story of the walks we take, the things we love, the people we know, and the mysteries that shapes us during the while we are here.