A memoir unlike any you’ve read: A young woman’s inspiring struggle with her invisible killer

Mallory Smith was a toddler in 1995 when doctors finally diagnosed her persistent cough and runny nose: cystic fibrosis. Life expectancy for the disease at the time was between 25 and 30 years.

Upon hearing the news, her mother collapsed.

“Our new normal: a child with an expiration date,” said…