A walk to remember

Danh sách chương A walk to remember

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Chapter 01

1 Chapter 1  In 1958, Beaufort, North Carolina, which is located on the coast near Morehead City, was a place like many other small southern towns. It was the kind of place where the humidity rose so high in the summer that walking out to get the mail made a person feel as if he needed a shower, and kids walked around barefoot from April through October beneath oak trees draped in Spanish moss.

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Chapter 02

2 Chapter 2  After high school I planned to go to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My father wanted me to go to Harvard or Princeton like some of the sons of other congressmen did, but with my grades it wasn’t possible.

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Chapter 03

3 Chapter 3  As a general rule, Southern Baptists don’t dance. In Beaufort, however, it wasn’t a rule that was ever strictly enforced. The minister before Hegbert—don’t ask me what his name was—took sort of a lax view about school dances as long as they were chaperoned, and because of that, they’d b e a tradition of sorts.

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Chapter 04

4 Chapter 4  In the two weeks following the hom ing dance, my life pretty much returned to normal. My father was back in Washington, D. C. , which made things a lot more fun around my house, primarily because I could sneak out the window again and head to the graveyard for my late night forays.

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Chapter 05

5 Chapter 5 The next day I talked to Miss Garber, went through the audition, and got the part. Eddie, by the way, wasn’t upset at all. In fact, I could tell he was actually relieved about the whole thing.

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Chapter 06

6 Chapter 6 The first thing we did was talk to Miss Garber out our plans for the orphans, and she thought it was a marvelous idea. That was her favorite word, by the way—marvelous—after she’d greeted you with “Hellooooo.

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Chapter 07

7 Chapter 7  By early December, just over two weeks into rehearsals, the sky was winter dark before Miss Garber would let us leave, and Jamie asked me if I wouldn’t mind walking her home.

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Chapter 08

8 Chapter 8  The night of the play was cool and crisp, the sky absolutely clear without a hint of clouds. We had to arrive an hour early, and I’d been feeling pretty bad all day about the way I’d talked to Jamie the night before.

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Chapter 09

9 Chapter 9  To say that the play was a smashing success was to put it mildly. The audience laughed and the audience cried, which is pretty much what they were supposed to do.

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Chapter 10

10 Chapter 10   I drove Jamie home from the orphanage later that night. At first I wasn’t sure whether I should pull the old yawn move and put my arm around her shoulder, but to be honest, I didn’t know exactly how she was feeling about me.

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Chapter 11

11 Chapter 11  You’re the first boy I’ve ever kissed,” she said to me. It was a few days before the new year, and Jamie and I were standing at the Iron Steamer Pier in Pine Knoll Shores.

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Chapter 12

12 Chapter 12  She had leukemia; she’d known it since last summer. The moment she told me, the blood drained from my face and a sheaf of dizzying images fluttered through my mind.

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Chapter 13 (end)

13 Chapter 13  When I was seventeen, my life changed forever. As I walk the streets of Beaufort forty years later, thinking back on that year of my life, I remember everything as clearly as if it were all still folding before my very eyes.

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