Submitted by:

Mary Rose Ann Renacia

CAS-06-101P
Submitted to:
Prof. Susan Vargas
A Walk To Remember
By Nicholas Sparks

Setting:
The story takes place in the real-life city of Beaufort, North Carolina (pronounced "Bo-furt"),
in 1958 and 1959. Beaufort is a small coastal port city that was established in 1722.
Character List:
Major Characters:

Jamie Sullivan is a seventeen year-old girl, the daughter of the Beaufort church
Baptist minister Hegbert Sullivan. She is very religious, sweet, and kind. Shes dying
of cancer, but who impacts on the lives of everyone around her.

Landon Carter is a son of a rich family, the 57 year-old man who through
flashback narrates the story of his seventeenth year, the year that changed his life.

Hegbert Sullivan is Jamie's father. He is the Beaufort church minister. His wife
died shortly after giving birth to Jamie. He wrote the local play, The Christmas
Angel but he tries to discourage the young couple from being together and falling
love, but in the end, even he cannot disrupt Gods Plan.

Minor Characters

Worth Carter
Landons father and the local congressman, he is seldom home and so, he and Landon
havent much of a relationship.

Landons mother
Although she is nameless, she has a great deal of influence on her son and is a source
of strength when he needs it most.

Eric Hunter
Landons best friend and the star of the football team, he is a natural joker and teaser
and in the end, must come to grips with the way he had always treated Jamie.

Miss Garber
The teacher who teaches the Drama Class and helps them stage The Christmas Angel.

Carey and Eddie

The two boys whom Landon often mocks as being somehow less than he is.

Jamies mother
Although she has died at Jamies birth, it is her Bible that has a lasting influence on
both Jamie and Landon.

Landons grandfather
A kind of robber baron who made the family fortune by stealing from the people of
Beaufort, his evil actions made Hegbert quit working for him and created discord
between Hegbert and his son Worth for a long time after. Jamie heals their rift

PLOT/SUMMARY:
Landon, a senior in high school in 1958, describes Beaufort, North Carolina, as a typical,
small, Southern town, in which churches particularly Baptist churches play a significant
role. The church where Landon and his family attend, Southern Baptist, in collaboration with
Beaufort High School, presents a Christmas play each year at the local playhouse. The
Christmas Angel, penned by the minister of Southern Baptist, Hegbert Sullivan, is a largely
autobiographical story that parallels the life of the minister: A man's wife dies during
childbirth, and he has to raise his daughter on his own, in spite of overwhelming grief. In the

play, the father, Tom Thornton, searches desperately to buy a particular music box for his
daughter, whom he has kept at arm's length because of his grief. While on an unsuccessful
shopping trip to locate the music box, Tom meets a beautiful angel, who encourages him to
be a better father; the music box then miraculously appears under the tree on Christmas
morning. The play is popular in Beaufort, playing to packed houses in spite of the amateur
cast, drawn from seniors at the high school.
As the younger Landon narrates, he also describes his father, Worth Carter, a popular, wellknown U.S. congressman who lives much of his life in Washington, D.C. Worth Carter and
Reverend Sullivan do not see eye to eye, partly because Congressman Carter is less
tenacious than Reverend Sullivan would like him to be in hunting down communist influences
and sympathizers, but also because Landon's grandfather was a bootlegger and banker, who
charged such exorbitant interest rates during the Great Depression that most of his
customers lost their homes and businesses to him when they became unable to make their
payments. Reverend Sullivan, who once worked for Grandfather Carter, quit his job and
joined the ministry, but he still harbors resentment and anger over Carter's behavior.
Like the protagonist in The Christmas Angel, Hegbert Sullivan's much-younger wife died in
childbirth, leaving the minister to raise his daughter, Jamie, on his own. In 1958, the year in
which Landon is narrating the story, Jamie is a senior in high school, and she is cast as the
angel in the play. Landon finds himself in drama class with the plain, devout, Bible-carrying
Jamie, who is not only a model student but also a model person: kind; selfless; gentle;
cheerful; and always deeply concerned with the welfare of anyone less fortunate than she.
Jamie is adored by the adults in Beaufort but not befriended by any of the students, both
because of her drab clothing and plain appearance and because her near-perfect behavior
reflects poorly on the rest of the student body.
At the end of the chapter, Landon considers the number of years he has known (and mostly
avoided) Jamie, and he is shocked, after all that time, to discover that she is developing a
woman's body that, along with a summer tan from Bible school, makes her appear almost
pretty in Landon's eyes.
Landon discusses his college options. His father wants him to attend an Ivy League
university, but Landon hopes only that his grades are high enough for him to be accepted at
the University of North Carolina, where his father attended. Worth Carter devises a scheme
to improve Landon's college application: run for student body president. Although reluctant,
Landon schemes with his best friend, Eric Hunter, a sports standout, to secure the athletes'
vote for Landon. Thus Landon wins the election.
One task that falls to Landon in his new position is that he must decorate for, attend, and
clean up after the Homecoming Dance. In order to avoid being the only student body
president in history to not bring a date to the dance, Landon ponders his options. Still pining
for his junior-year girlfriend, Angela Clark, who now dates a 20-year-old mechanic named
Lew, Landon discovers that most of the girls he knows already have dates for the dance.
Landon's pressure intensifies in light of the fact that a fellow student council member,
treasurer Carey Dennison, is also without a date and is likely asking any remaining available
girls. Landon comes across Jamie Sullivan's picture in his yearbook, and although he is

initially repulsed by the idea of asking her to the dance, he realizes she may be his only
option and that, to stave off Dennison, Landon must act quickly. He runs to Jamie's house
and nervously asks her to be his date. She is surprised, but she agrees, with one caveat:
Landon must promise not to fall in love with her.
Landon experiences some anxiety about the upcoming dance. Although Jamie's religious
code does allow her to dance, Landon fears that Jamie will wear her usual brown sweater and
plaid skirt, which may prompt the other kids to tease her. Landon's friend Eric, who is dating
a cheerleader named Margaret Hays, suggests double-dating, but Landon rejects this idea,
aware of Eric's tendency to tease, especially when he has been drinking.
On the day of the dance, Landon fulfills his student council obligations by decorating the
gym and then picks up a corsage for Jamie and drives to her house, where Reverend Sullivan
is waiting to have a word with Landon. In an awkward conversation, Landon has to convince
Reverend Sullivan that he means no ill will toward Jamie and does not plan to play any
pranks on her.
Landon is relieved when he sees Jamie, who has put on a nice blouse and skirt and is not
carrying her Bible, although she is still free of makeup and wears her hair in a bun. Landon
observes Reverend Sullivan's fondness for his daughter as Landon and Jamie depart for the
dance.
Jamie has few friends, and because of Jamie, Landon is largely shunned by his, so the two
spend the first hour of the evening alone, talking and dancing. Trouble brews when Angela
and Lew arrive: Angela has already been drinking; Lew spikes the punch bowl; and Landon
finds himself staring at Angela in her flashy dress, which angers Lew. Jamie cheerfully
intervenes, recognizing Lew from a photo she saw at the home of an elderly woman she once
helped, and this saves Landon from a fistfight.
Later that evening, Jamie finds Angela retching on the bathroom floor, and Jamie and Landon
clean up Angela, clean up the bathroom, and take Angela home. Landon is able to drop Jamie
off just before her curfew and is amazed when she says she had a good time, despite being
covered in Angela's vomit.
Life returns to normal for Landon. His father is back in Washington, D.C.; Landon and his
friends sneak out to spend late nights at the graveyard; and Landon doesn't see Jamie very
much. Eventually Jamie calls Landon, although he first thinks the voice is Angela's. Jamie
asks Landon whether they can talk, an idea that repels Landon, but he agrees to see her that
day. As when Landon asked her on their date, the two sit outside because Reverend Sullivan
does not allow Jamie to be alone in the house with a young man. Jamie asks Landon whether
he'd be willing to audition to play the part of Tom Thornton in this year's The Christmas
Angel, taking over for Eddie Jones, who stammers. Jamie insists that she is asking not
because Eddie's stammering embarrasses her but because she wants the production to be
perfect this year for her father, whom she loves. Landon reluctantly agrees, wondering if he
really even had an option the saying no to her request.
Landon secures the role of Tom Thornton and begins three weeks of rehearsals with the rest
of the cast, led by the drama teacher, Miss Garber. Acting does not come naturally to Landon

so he has to work hard both to remember his lines and to give a credible performance. For
this hard work, he resents Jamie.
One night, when Landon is out with his friends, Jamie approaches him, which increases both
his friends' teasing about Jamie and Landon's resentment toward her. The two discuss the
play, and Eric mockingly suggests that the two of them perform their lines for the orphans as
a dry run. Jamie does not catch Eric's mocking tone and loves the idea. She decides to
approach the orphanage director with the plan, which kicks Landon's practice and
memorization into high gear because he doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of the
orphans.
In response to Jamie's idea to perform in front of the orphans, Miss Garber, the drama
teacher, suggests that the entire cast (not just Jamie and Landon) perform for the orphans.
Jamie and Landon are charged with driving to Morehead City, the next town over, and asking
the orphanage director, Mr. Jenkins, for his permission. On their way, Jamie stops by Landon's
home and is astonished by its size and grandeur, especially when compared to her own
modest house. Landon reflects to himself that his favorite part of the house is the window
that allows him to escape his home late at night.
On their way to the orphanage, Landon and Jamie discuss their future, and Jamie suggests
that Landon become a minister after college, a suggestion he finds "absolutely ridiculous."
Jamie reveals that her own dream is to get married, with a tremendous crowd in attendance
and her father walking her down the aisle. Given Jamie's prowess in the classroom, Landon is
surprised Jamie doesn't aspire to more in life.
They turn their attention to the orphanage, where Jamie has volunteered for the last seven
years. Jamie is disappointed when Mr. Jenkins rejects their idea to perform the play there; he
reminds them that the subject matter might sadden the orphans. In spite of her deep
disappointment, Jamie understands Mr. Jenkins' decision. She then gives Landon a tour of the
orphanage, which depresses him in its starkness.
Excitement about the play builds in the community, especially because the playwright's
daughter has the starring role this year. But Landon feels no such excitement because his
friends tease him relentlessly over his connection to Jamie.
Landon begins walking Jamie home each night, at her request, because of the late hour at
which they leave rehearsals. Landon, with obvious sarcasm, reflects internally on how safe
the town is, even at night. During one of their evening walks, Jamie reveals that she doesn't
plan to attend college in spite of being one of the best students in the class. She also talks
about missing her mother, and Jamie reveals that the Bible she always carries belonged to
her mother, who had it with her in the hospital when she died.
One night, Eric and Margaret see the two walking home, and Eric again mocks them under
the guise of being sweet and polite. Eric quickly tells everyone at school about the afterrehearsal walks, and Landon finds himself withdrawing from his friends in frustration over
their teasing. The night before the play, Landon finally lashes out at Jamie, who is deeply
hurt by his outburst.

Feeling badly about hurting Jamie, Landon approaches her the night of the play to apologize;
he finds himself holding her hand. After the two head to their respective dressing rooms, Eric
enters and asks what funny or mean stunt Landon plans to pull during the performance.
When Landon answers that he plans only to say his lines and act the part as best he can, Eric
responds, "I guess you're finally growing up, Landon."
Landon is most worried about his pivotal scene, in which Tom Thornton first sees the angel
and utters, "You're beautiful." In rehearsals, the line hasn't been ringing true because Landon
can't imagine anyone having such a reaction when looking at an angel that looks like Jamie.
However, when Landon finally sees Jamie in that scene, she is wearing a flowing white dress
and a touch of makeup, with her hair cascading to below her shoulders. Landon delivers an
utterly believable, "You're beautiful."
The play is a huge success, and everyone is amazed at Jamie's transformative beauty. When,
after the closing curtain, Jamie thanks Landon for his part in the play, he feels a pang of
sadness at not being able to walk her home that night.
By the following Monday, however, Jamie is back to her old self and so are her classmates'
attitudes toward her. Landon busies himself with schoolwork and college applications that,
combined with some lingering guilt over his harsh words toward Jamie, keep Landon from
reaching out to Jamie. However, Jamie asks for Landon's help in collecting the 60 cans and
jars she has placed around town to collect change that she intends to use to buy Christmas
presents for the orphans. Landon agrees to help.
Three days later, when Landon sees that only $55.73 has been collected a paltry sum
even in 1958 he empties his bank account and, without telling Jamie what he has done,
brings nearly $250 to Jamie. She insists on taking Landon with her to the orphanage to
deliver the gifts she buys with the money, and he is touched by what he witnesses there: a
spectacular tree; presents for each child; and clean, well-behaved children. Because Jamie
and Landon arrive separately that day, when he finally sees her, reading to the children,
again he is stuck by how beautiful she looks. Landon describes the evening as the best
Christmas Eve he's ever experienced.
When Landon and Jamie exchange gifts, he gives her a new sweater, and she gives him her
Bible. Landon is deeply touched by her gift; reflecting to himself on the times they have
spent together, he realizes he has fallen in love with Jamie.
Later that night, Landon contemplates Reverend Sullivan's recent odd behavior, in which he
appears sad and disconnected. Landon and Jamie discuss God and the importance of
continued faith, and Landon invites Jamie to his house for Christmas dinner. Landon then
holds Jamie's hand, and although he hopes for a goodnight kiss, the opportunity does not
present itself.
Dinner is pleasant and uneventful; afterward, Landon and Jamie take a walk in the garden,
and Jamie asks about Landon's grandfather. She challenges Landon to find a way to return
his grandfather's ill-gotten financial gains. They then discuss Jamie's father, Hegbert his
worries and fears. Finally, Landon asks Jamie whether he can come over to see her now and
then, and she agrees. He visits her the next day, and they kiss.

Landon and Jamie begin to date. On New Year's Eve, he takes her to a fancy restaurant on
the advice of his mother. He first receives Reverend Sullivan's blessing, however, and when
he does, Landon notices that Reverend Sullivan cries as Landon leaves his office. Landon
also notices that Jamie appears more fatigued than she used to.
The two begin to incorporate each other into their lives. Jamie spends time on the river, at
the beach, and at Cecil's Diner Landon's hangouts and Landon visits the orphanage.
Landon draws the line, however, at attending Bible study with Jamie so as not to accentuate
his lack of Biblical knowledge.
One day, near the end of the holiday school break, Landon notices a large bruise below
Jamie's ring finger. After hugging her, he also notes that she is thinner than even two weeks
before.
After Landon tells Jamie for the first time that he loves her, she cries and asks him not to say
that. She then gives Landon the stunning news that she is dying.
In this, the longest chapter of the novel, Landon discovers that Jamie has leukemia. She and
her father have known for seven months and have told no one, deciding that they would
rather live without the sadness and pity of others for as long as possible. Jamie and Landon
then tell his mother, and Reverend Sullivan shares the sad news with the congregation.
When school begins again, teachers inform the students of Jamie's condition, and the entire
student body grieves. Jamie's disease is a rare form with no cure, and she has only a few
months to live unless a miracle occurs.
Landon feels fear and begins to investigate that emotion. He fears death, fears upsetting
Jamie, fears talking about the future with her. He discovers, however, that Jamie is afraid,
too, although she puts on a strong front. Jamie stops attending school to spend more time
with her father; Landon, meanwhile, begins to pray for a miracle and starts reading Jamie's
Bible every night, looking for guidance and answers.
Landon begins to ponder what he can do, if anything. His mother, who is deeply saddened by
Jamie's and Landon's situation, encourages Landon to listen to his heart.
Jamie's disease progresses rapidly, such that she loses more weight, takes on a gray pallor,
and bruises even more easily. She is nearly always cold, and she takes medication to ease
her pain. She and Landon discuss Landon's reading of the Bible and the meaning of faith:
Jamie reveals that her faith in God is still strong; Landon reveals that he is losing his. The two
begin to study the Bible together. After a dinner at Landon's house, during which he assures
Jamie that he will continue to visit her even during her last days, Jamie tells Landon that she
loves him.
Reverend Sullivan allows the two to stay indoors together, without supervision, for a few
hours each day after school. One day, amidst a steady stream of visitors, Eric and Margaret
stop by Jamie's house while Landon is there. Eric apologizes for Jamie's condition and opens
up to her, revealing that he believes she is the kindest person he has ever met. Both Eric and
Margaret weep openly, and Jamie holds each of them in a long embrace. Eric tells Jamie he's
praying for her, and then leaves an envelope with $400 he collected for the orphanage.

As Landon waits for his miracle, Jamie's condition again worsens. She is clearly dying, and
Landon searches for something he can do. When Jamie requires hospital care, Landon's
mother calls his father home, and the two of them step in and pay for full-time, in-home
medical care for Jamie. This moment is, for Landon, the first time he feels close to his father.
Yet Landon still searches for something to do some way to answer the growing feeling in
his heart that he can do more for Jamie. He asks God for guidance, but he also begins to ask
the great existential questions: Why am I here? What is my purpose? Why have the events of
my life unfolded as they have?
One day, with a sudden sense of purpose, Landon knows what he has to do. He rushes to the
church, insistent on seeing Reverend Sullivan, who responds with shock to Landon's idea.
Landon then runs to Jamie's house and asks whether she will do something for him. When
she agrees, Landon goes forward with his plans: He asks Jamie to marry him.
This chapter begins with the same words as a Prologue: "When I was seventeen, my life
changed forever." Because Jamie agrees to marry Landon but has little time left, frantic
preparations begin.
Reverend Sullivan officiates the wedding; Landon's dad serves as his best man, as is the
Southern custom, and the emotional gap between them has now disappeared. And as in
Jamie's vision of her wedding, the church is packed with guests. Wearing the white gown
from the Christmas play, Jamie finds the strength to walk down the aisle with her father. It is
slow going, but in the eyes of Landon and all the assembled guests it is, indeed, "a walk to
remember."
Fifty-seven-year-old Landon reflects on that day, telling us that he now believes in miracles.
-----*THE END*----Theme:

To love and to be loved.

People can change. that the influence of one person can broaden your horizons and
make you see/do things you never thought possible.

Reflection:

Love is like the wind, you cant see it but you can feel it
-Nicholas Sparks
The Heart Versus the Mind
When I heard about this novel I was really intrigued and the first time I read it I was
deeply amazed with the story. It makes me believe that love conquers all, without love, life is
meaningless. Gods Plan is also an important idea. The answer to the question, What is

Gods Plan? is sought throughout the plot of the novel. It is also important on how we all
influence each other which makes us, the readers think about how we can have a lasting
impact on the least among us.
Nicholas Sparks, in A Walk to Remember, sets out to debunk this theory. In this novel,
Sparks shows us that the best decisions the ones that matter the most in our lives are
best made by listening to your heart. Landon Carter, the protagonist, has been listening to
his mind for years. He has known Jamie Sullivan all his life, and his "logic" tells him that she's
nothing special in fact, that she's rather strange. Because she carries a Bible with her all
the time, she must be a religious fanatic. Because she's nice to everyone, she must be
boring and one-dimensional. Because she helps the less fortunate, she must be overly
sentimental. Because she's plain and wears dowdy clothing, she must be someone to avoid.
And, later, because she is dying, she must be beyond anyone's help.
However, when Landon spends time with Jamie, he finds that although she is
comfortable discussing her religious beliefs, asking deep questions, and searching for
complex answers, she is not fanatical. She is, in fact, quite ordinary, with normal teenage
fears, desires, and frustrations. Although she is confident in her beliefs, she is also the very
definition of kind and gentle; she does not push her beliefs on anyone else. And she carries
her Bible to be close to her mother, not to advertise her faith. Jamie does not live up to the
expectation that the "facts" would have Landon believe.
Such is nearly always true when listening to the heart. The head tends to cling to the
negative because logic tells us that no one could be that good, that selfless, that sure of her
religious beliefs without requiring the same of others. So the logical mind believes the worst
about Jamie. The heart, however, believes the best. The heart dreams, loves, takes chances,
defies the odds, while the head will explain to you why those dreams will never come to
fruition, why love always results in heartache, why the chances taken are silly ones that will
never pan out, and why the odds are set against you.
But somehow, Landon Carter learns to listen to his heart and disregard all else. Logic
insists that Jamie is beyond his help, that there is nothing he can do for her. Logic insists that
Jamie will die from her disease, that Landon will forget her, move on, and live out his life with
someone else. Logic dictates that marrying someone in her final days is sentimental and
emotional, and will have no bearing on the cold, hard facts of her illness. Yet Landon opts for
the heart, choosing to believe in a miracle, choosing to marry Jamie in spite of their young
age and her advanced illness. And Landon spends the next 40 years devoted to her, which
also defies logic. If she lived, he spent those years happily married to someone he met at an
age when few people are able to make successful lifelong decisions. And if she died, he
carried his love for her for 40 years without ever pursuing another relationship. Neither
ending makes any logical sense, which is exactly why readers respond to this story. Landon
listens to his heart, which is where all good, brave, and noble decisions are made.

Moral Lesson:

A Walk to Remember exemplifies how life throws us for a loop. It gives us the most tragic
and painful hardships of our lives. But in turn we also receive the greatest gift God has given
us and that's love. Through faith, Jamie lives her remaining days on earth the best way she
knows how to - by not giving up on her love for God. Through love, Landon mends his broken
relationship with his father for Jamie's sake. Through a miracle, Jamie's father lives on after
the losses of the two most important people in his life - his wife and his daughter. To say it
straightforward, the moral lesson is not to take the people around you for granted. People
come in and out of our lives, and sometimes they change us forever.

I N S P I R AT I O N

FOR

A WALK TO REMEMBER

Im often asked which novel is my favorite, but thats a question I cant really answer. Its like
trying to choose between my children, and all I can say is that I like them all for different
reasons.
I can say however, that A Walk to Remember was my favorite novel to write. I enjoyed the
process of capturing the voice of a smart-alecky 17-year-old kid. Likewise with Jamie Sullivan.
There was something intrinsically sweet about her character that gradually seemed to take
over the book. It was also the only novel that made me cry while writing.
A Walk to Remember was inspired by my sister.
In many ways, Jamie Sullivan was my younger sister. Like Jamie, my sister was sweet. Like
Jamie, my sister had tremendously strong faith. Like Jamie, my sister loved church. Like
Jamie, my sister wasnt popular at school. Like Jamie, my sister was always cheerful. Like
Jamie, all my sister wanted in life was to get married.
And like Jamie, my sister got cancer.
Like Jamie, my sister met someone. And like Landon, there was a long period of time when
this fellow couldnt imagine himself marrying a girl like her. And yet, in the end, he couldnt
help himself. Even when he knew she was sick, even when he knew that she might not make
it, this man asked my sister to marry him.

It was just about the sweetest thing thats ever been done for anyone, and I suppose I wrote
this novel not only so that you could get to know my sister, but so that you would know what
a wonderful thing it was that her husband once did for her.
Sadly, my sister died in June 2000. She was thirty-three years old.

DID JAMIE LIVE OR DIE AT THE END OF THE NOVEL?

As I mentioned in the notes, this is the most frequently asked question I receive. As far as I
can tell, about 70% of the people think Jamie passed away, another 30% believe she lived,
and when asking the question, they offer proof for their reasoning. Isnt it said that good
books inspire debate? There are a number of things that I have to explain before I get into
the answer so you can understand my reasoning. Part of it goes back to Message in a Bottle.
In a nutshell, while many readers loved the ending of that novel, a great many were furious
with me for it. Really furious. This was on my mind while writing Walk, and part of me
thought that if I killed off another major character, my readers would never forgive me.
Nonetheless, when I started the novel, I knew that Jamie was going to die. Every page, every
scene, every chapter was written with that idea and it continued to proceed that way right
up until the end of the novel, when the time came to write those words. But strangely, I
couldnt do it. I just couldnt do it. No matter how hard I tried, I couldnt. Why? Because by
that time, Id grown to love Jamie Sullivan. I marveled at her strength and faith, and I was
proud of everything for which she stood. And I didnt want her to die. So I found myself in a
dilemma. Also, keep in mind that the story was also inspired by my sister, who was very
much alive as I neared the end of the novel. But because of all that I had written with her
death in mind, because she was growing weaker and weaker throughout the story, it would
have been dishonest (and frankly, very manipulative), to have Jamie suddenly cured. I could
imagine some readers reaching the end and thinking, if that was the case, why the big buildup with her sickness? Others might close the book and think the entire novel was believable
up until that point. I didnt want either of those impressions of the novel. So what was I to
do? I didnt want her to die, and couldnt write those words. Yet, plainly I couldnt let her live,
either. I opted for the only solution, the solution that best described the feeling I had about
my gravely ill sister at that point: namely, that I hoped she would live. Thats the ending,
folks. I wanted readers to finish with the hope that Jamie lived. As to whether she actually
lived or died, its ambiguous and purposely meant to be that way. If you wanted Jamie to live,
she lived. If you knew that Jamie would die, she died. As for me (and Im not the final sayI
wrote the characters, but readers know them just as well as I do), I thought there was a good
chance that Jamie lived. At least, I hoped so.

-Nicholas Sparks, the Author (A Walk To Remember1999)

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