Before you were born, you existed in a place of golden light, surrounded by souls you have loved for eternity. You looked down at the life awaiting you—the mountains of joy, the valleys of sorrow, the ordinary days between—and you chose it all. You chose your mother's voice, your father's hands, the lovers who would break your heart and the ones who would mend it. You chose the forgetting too, because only by forgetting where you came from could you fully experience the beauty and pain of being human. This is the story of that journey. From the place between, through the tunnels of light and sound, into the warm world of the womb, and finally into the life itself—with all its glimpses of something beyond, its losses that hollow us out and fill us anew, and its ultimate return to the love that has been waiting since before time began. The Longest Vacation is a memoir of before—a lyrical exploration of the soul's journey from eternity to earth and back again. It is for anyone who has ever felt a moment of inexplicable recognition, wondered where they came from, or suspected that this life is only one chapter in an eternal story.