This is my all time favorite book. It never fails to surprise me whenever a page is flipped. The book itself is a mystery, and it unravels the endless mysteries of the world as well. Perfectly written in such a way that it'll not only make you fall... it'll make you believe.
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I will not tell the story of the book for it might just ruin the magic that it could bring to an individual, although a story was told in the book that is somehow similar to the real story of the book itself.
from pp. 171 of the book
Before I closed my eyes, I began to hear my mother's voice. She was telling a story she had often told me when I was a child, not realizing it was a story about me.
" A boy and a girl were insanely in love with each other," my mother's voice was saying." They decided to become engaged. And that's when presents are always exchanged."
"The boy was poor--- his only worthwhile possession was a watch he'd inherited from his grandfather. Thinking about his sweetheart's lovely hair, he decided to sell the watch in order to buy her a silver barrette."
"The girl had no money herself to buy him a present. She went to the shop of the most successful merchant in the town and sold him her hair.With the money, she bought a gold watchband for her lover."
"When they met on the day of the engagement party, she gave him the wristband for a watch he had sold, and he gave ger the barrette for the hair she no longer had."
*sigh* the real story would make you feel ten times than what this story made you feel.
btw, here's an excerpt from the book that has somehow changed the way I deal with life and love...
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