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What would you do if out of the blue, you received a letter from your first love? Siân Richards sees no reason why she can't write back to Charles Callahan. After all, it's been thirty years and they are both married with families. But when they decide to meet again, an innocent correspondence... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Charles Callahan: The man in the story, a husband & father but NOT worthy of either title.
- Sian Richards: Caught up in an affair with Charles, she doesn't examine his as a 40+ year old man.
Quotes edit
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“And then you held my hand, and I turned away, and you asked if it upset me and I said no, when what I really wanted to say was, 'I can't breathe.'”
Sian -
“'If you're skating on thin ice,' he whispers in the frosty night, 'you might as well dance.'”
Charles to Sian -
“And yet love -- the love that we shared so briefly -- lodges not in the heart but in the brain, and with the brain there are always thoughts, always memories.”
Sian -
“I knew, too, that if a heart can be said to be broken, this letter would break your heart, because it had broken mine.”
First Sentence edit
I remember everything.
Table of Contents edit
1-4
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anita Shreve (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0151314616
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 0151314616
Page Count: 240
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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