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Eleanor & Park (2012)
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Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.
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Well, she said. I'm frustrated. Don't make me angry-kiss you. Give me the laundry. Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.
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What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?
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Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting. When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.
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You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things happen for reasons. People make sense. But that's not my life. Nobody in my life makes sense…
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Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn't bear to think of him loving her less.
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(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)
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For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.
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All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.
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But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
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He'd stopped trying to bring her back. She only came back when she felt like it anyway, in dreams and lies and broken-down deja-vu.
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Eleanor had never thought about killing herself – ever – but she thought a lot about stopping. Just running until she couldn't run anymore. Jumping from something so high that she'd never hit the bottom.
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She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.
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Rainbow Rowell
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February 24, 1973
(age 51)
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