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The Notebook

An elderly man man with a well used notebook in his hands. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn’t understand or enjoy, until he starts to read to her. The Notebook is a heartbreaking story which describes the power of love like no other. A story that you’ll remember forever.

Set in North Carolina in 1946, it follows the story of Noah Calhoun. A rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one years old, is restoring an old house to its former glory. But this is a special house to him. This was the house he once saw himself and the love of his life, Allie, living together in. But they were unwillingly torn apart, and their relationship got ripped to pieces. Fourteen years later he still remembers the summer they spent together, and the feelings he felt remains. Deep down he still feels the same way. But he thinks that that boat has sailed, as the years has passed. Until she unexpectedly shows up at his doorstep to see him once again.

Allie, twenty-nine years old, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she had felt for Noah has not dissapeared with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the distance between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape.

Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale suddenly becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deep portrait of love itself .The Notebook has a beauty that you can call perfection, and it establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller. You get caught in its web from the moment you start reading, and it never let’s you go. It will never be forgotten, and it will still be read a hundred years from now.This is a story that is

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