In Believing in Magic, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson, shares for the first time how her husband’s HIV diagnosis 25 years ago sent her life and marriage in a frightening new direction. Johnson shares the emotional journey that started November 7, 1991. She shares how her life as a pregnant newlywed immediately become one filled with fear, embarrassment, and isolation. Believing in Magic is far more than Cookie Johnson's account of surviving that trauma. It is the story of her marriage with Earvin through a tumultuous time for any marriage and heightened by fame and an stigmatized disease. Encouraging. Motivational. Complete. Read it and enjoy.