Ryan Mitchell was born with one leg shorter than the other and had a profound limp. Kids at his school teased him and it was hard for him to have friends. Brianna Davis who had flaming red hair was also teased and she had a hard time getting friends too, but since they lived next to each other in Clinton, Utah, and shared the same birthday they became friends. They enjoyed running through the corn fields in the area, and Brianna fought off bullies who were picking on Ryan. Later Ryan discovers that he is in love with Brianna only he doesn't get a chance to tell her because her parents die and she has to move and live with her grandparents in Idaho. Later he learns after high school that she got married. He goes on a mission to Chicago and then returns and goes to school to be a photographer and gets a job with National Geographic and gets married. Ryan and his wife Lina move to Rexburg Idaho and right next door to Brianna who married a doctor. Matt her husband delivers Ryan and Lina's baby as well as his own on the same night and they quickly become friends. Later Matt is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and Lina ends up dying from an appendicitis. With Lina gone Ryan goes on assignment for National Geographic to China while he is gone Matt dies. When he returns Ryan and Brianna become close and end up getting married. They have two children together and then at age 98 with Lina, Matt, and Brianna gone, Ryan goes up into the mountains to die.