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<p><strong>In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir writer speaker and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm instead and finding faith hope and joy in the middle of it all. </strong></p><p>Molly Stillman has lived the type of life that when shared people stop in their tracks and ask Wait what happened? Molly's mother Lynda Van Devanter Buckley served as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War and wrote the bestselling memoir <em>Home Before Morning</em>. When Molly was seventeen Lynda passed away after an eight-year battle with an autoimmune disorder due to her exposure to Agent Orange. Four years later Molly turned twenty-one and unexpectedly inherited a quarter of a million dollars from her mother's estranged family's estate. Through retail therapy and a long series of grossly irresponsible financial decisions Molly found herself broke with over $36000 in credit card debt less than two years later. Shame guilt and embarrassment set in.</p><p>With aspirations of a career in comedy Molly used humor to mask the pain and brokenness she felt believing that if she looked joyful and put together on the outside it would eventually be true on the inside. Instead she spent the next few years depressed lonely and feeling alienated from those closest to her. But an unlikely call with a compassionate credit counselor meeting the spreadsheet-loving man who eventually became her husband and a surprising visit to a church started her on a path that changed everything.</p><p><em>If I Don't Laugh I'll Cry</em> will bring readers into the tension of feeling both joy and grief and show them that every broken messed up story has a purpose and it's possible to gain everything if they're willing to surrender it all to Jesus.</p>