6/20/2023 0 Comments The notebook novel![]() ![]() It's then that Allie comes to visit him, three weeks from her wedding date but seemingly unable to marry without seeing Noah one more time. ![]() Noah works, joins the military and inherits money from a previous employer that allows him to buy a historic house and repair it. Noah writes letters to Allie over the years, but Allie's mother withholds them and Allie assumes Noah has forgotten her. The notebook is the story of Noah and Allie, two who were lovers as teenagers in a summer romance, but who were then separated by Allie's parents who felt Noah wasn't the best man for her. Believing in prayer as he does, he takes time to pray as he opens the book, puts on glasses and picks up a magnifying glass, and prepares to read. Noah knows the odds and science are both against him, and that he simply hopes for a miracle. Noah says mornings are always difficult and she will calm down later when the nurses have gone. He reaches a particular room and goes inside where he is greeted by nurses caring for a woman who is obviously upset. ![]() The people inside - like he - have gotten accustomed to being alone with only a television for company, and that a person can get used to anything. He says that he picks up a notebook that he has read many times and passes many doors. He describes his day in the nursing home. Noah begins by saying that he is eighty years old, that he does not regret any of the paths he has chosen to travel, and that the paths today are more rocky than those of years ago. ![]()
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