“Where does a story truly start? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet these are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen”

—  Nicholas Sparks

Narrator, Prologue, p. 1
2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)

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