With my new son and my sister’s situation, I couldn’t concentrate long enough to make any writing worthwhile. Unfortunately, she didn’t, and she passed away in early June.ĭuring those six months, I tried to write a novel, but it wasn’t working. She was certain she would beat her cancer, right up until the end. Yet, she always smiled, she never bemoaned her plight. Every time I went (every ninth day, I flew out for four days), my sister was a little worse. Though I’m glad I did it, it was just about the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever gone through. I spent the first six months of that year flying back and forth across the country to visit with my sister. My third son was born, and I found out that the drugs my sister was taking to control her cancer were no longer working and that time was beginning to run out for her. I had hoped to start writing the novel in January of 2000, but a couple of things happened that month. His affirming message carries a powerful lesson about the imperfections of being human, the mistakes we all make, and the joy that comes when we give ourselves to love. In A Bend in the Road, Nicholas Sparks writes with a luminous intensity about life’s bitter turns and incomparable sweetness. and make a heartbreaking choice that will change their lives forever. Neither will be able to guess how closely linked they are to a shocking secret-one that will force them to question everything they ever believed in. Soon they are both laughing for the first time in years. Tentatively, Sarah and Miles reach out to each other. Perhaps it’s her own emotional wounds that make her sensitive to the hurt she first sees in Jonah’s eyes, and then his father’s. The second grade teacher of his son, Jonah, Sarah had left Baltimore after a difficult divorce to start over in the gentler surroundings of New Bern. As a deputy in the North Carolina town of New Bern, Miles Ryan not only grieves for Missy, but also longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Missy had been his first love, and Miles fervently believes she will be his last. Miles Ryan’s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago.
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