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The story begins with Duke (Old Noah) and Allie in a nursing home. Duke goes to Allie’s room and begins reading to her a story that started July of 1940 at a Carnival in Seabrook, South Carolina. Noah and Allie meet for the first time and Noah falls instantly in love but Allie is not that quick. Noah and Allie are thrown together by mutual friends Fin and Sara. Allie, Noah, Sarah and Fin go to a movie and Allie and Noah walk home together and that is when the romance picks up. Allie falls for Noah. Allie and Noah spend almost every waking moment together, they fight they make up. One night Allie goes to Noah’s house and Noah decides to take Allie to the Windsor Plantion where they almost make love but are interrupted by Fin who tells them that Allie’s parents have the police out looking for her then they go back the her house and Noah over hears her mother calling him trash and goes to leave. Allie runs out after him and they end up getting into a huge fight and break up. Allie and Noah lose touch and Noah and Fin go off to War while Allie goes to school and volunteers to nurse injured soldiers back to health. Fin dies during the war. While Allie nursed a soldier named Lon Hammond Jr. and he asks her out. Lon won Allie over quickly and proposed to her. When Noah returns home from the war he finds out that his father has sold their home so that he can buy the home that he had always wanted to buy and fix up. While Allie is trying on her wedding gown she sees a picture of Noah in the paper next to the house he had told her all about and she decides that she needs to go check on him. She goes back to Seabrook. She drives to Noah’s home and they have dinner and Noah asks her to come back the next day. She comes back the next day and they row out in the lake, they talk about the summer that they spent together and it begins to rain. Noah quickly rows back to the dock where Allie demands to know why Noah never wrote her and it is revealed for the first time to
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