![]() The lengths to which this man goes to help his wife remember the love they share is moving beyond words, an expression of a true and pure love. This part of the book is so powerful and affecting, I read parts of it through a blur of tears. After only one evening with Noah, Allie knows that what they share is something she's never had with her fiancé and never will.Īt the point when Allie must make her fateful decision about which man she is going to choose, the story cuts back to the elderly man and his wife who we discover has Alzheimer's. It's obvious that they're soul mates and perfect for each other, and in their heart of hearts, they know it too. I love how they slip right back into a comfortable relationship as though they've never been apart. The longing and desire between Noah and Allie is extremely moving and palpable and hasn't dimmed one bit in fourteen long years. Noah can hardly believe his eyes when the woman of his dreams pulls up in front of his house one day out of the blue. She tells her family and fiancé that she needs to get away from the stress of wedding planning and heads for New Bern alone. ![]() Seeing him again, stirs memories and emotions, and even though she doesn't really know why at the time, she is compelled to go see him in person one last time before getting married. Neither really knows what became of the other until Allie sees a picture of Noah in a local newspaper just three weeks before her wedding. Noah has had no successful relationships since, because the ghost of the time he spent with Allie still haunts him, and deep down, Allie knows there is something missing in her relationship with her fiancé. Over the years, neither was able to forget the other. Allie went to college, abandoned her artwork of which her parents did not approve, and eventually became engaged to an attorney of whom they did approve. Noah moved to New Jersey where he worked for several years before joining the Army and heading for Europe to fight in WWII. An aristocratic type system still prevailed in the South, so Allie's family didn't approve of a match with Noah and the two were separated for fourteen years. Allie was from a well-to-do family with political connections, and Noah was more or less a nobody. They were from opposite sides of the tracks. From there, we travel back in time to when star-crossed lovers Noah and Allie met as teenagers in 1932 and spent one magical summer together. It begins with an elderly man, sitting by his wife's bedside, reading her a story. The Notebook is a poignant story of true and unending love in its purest form, and the power and magic of love to defy all odds. After only one day with Noah, she's sure she'll never have anything like this with her fiancé, but will she have the strength to make the most difficult decision of her life? Review When she pulls up to Noah's house, she isn't quite sure what she's hoping for, but what she finds is that their love never died. Three weeks before her wedding, Allie sees a picture of Noah in the local paper and knows she must see him one more time before getting married. ![]() She loves her fiancé, but knows there is something missing in their relationship, the passion that she has only shared with one man. She went off to college and has since become engaged to a man who is more to their liking. Her parents didn't really approved of Noah, thinking he wasn't good enough for their daughter. Fourteen years later, Noah is living a peaceful existence in North Carolina in an old house that he restored after returning from the war, when who should pull into his driveway, but the woman he's never been able to forget.Īllie had never forgotten Noah either. No matter where he went, the ghost of his whirlwind summer romance with Allie haunted him, making it impossible to have a successful relationship. He went on with his life, first moving to New Jersey where he worked in a scrapyard, and later went off to fight in Europe during WWII. For the next two years, Noah wrote to Allie regularly but never received a reply. They fell in love at first sight and became inseparable until her family moved away. Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson met at a local carnival in 1932.
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