Finding a woman with a sense of humor had been the one piece of advice his father had given him when he'd first begun to get serious about dating, an… - Nicholas Sparks

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

In this world, after all, I've become more or less invisible...I've become what the young are afraid of becoming, just another member of the nameless elderly, an old and broken man with nothing left to offer to this world.
My days are inconsequential, comprising simple moments and even simpler pleasures. I eat and sleep and think of Ruth; I wander the house and stare the the paintings, and in the mornings, I feed the pigeons that gather in my backyard.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I lead a simple life now, I am foolish, an old man in love, a dreamer who dreams of nothing but reading to Allie and holding her whenever I can. I am a sinner with many faults and a man who believes in magic, but I am too old to change and too old to care.