When Then Became Now is a memoir from the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s. It's about teenagers John and Monique, who fall in love in high school, and the span of the relationship, which crumbled from drug use to the end of John's life thirty-three years later.
 
John left behind a son and two grandchildren, for whom he was writing his life story. Unfortunately, being homeless, his journal was lost to the streets in Southern California.
 
With grief in her heart, Monique writes to share the one story she can with John's son. The one of her and the man she knew before his pain and addiction destroyed him. This book is for anyone who has struggled with either addiction or loves someone who has. It's a love story, an unconditional friendship story, and a story of bonds without blood.