![]() ![]() ![]() Years ago during the early stages of her illness, Allie wrote a journal detailing their romance and life together, and instructed Noah to read the story to her in order to help her recall her past. In the present narrative, it is revealed that the elderly woman is actually Allie now stricken with dementia and Duke is actually her husband Noah. Despite Lon saying that he still loves her in spite of everything, Allie decides to return to Noah. After an argument with Noah over whether she will stay with him or return to Lon, Allie drives back to her hotel and confesses to Lon her infidelity with Noah and her conflicting emotions about who she should be with. Anne then gives Allie the letters that Noah wrote to her as an admission that she had hidden them from Allie, hoping that she makes the right choice. Anne reveals that in her youth, she had been in love with a lower-class young man and still thinks about him, but that she truly loves Allie’s father. Several days later, Anne appears on Noah's doorstep to warn Allie that Lon has followed her to Seabrook. The two rekindle their relationship and eventually consummate it. She returns to Seabrook to find Noah living in their dream house. While Allie is being fitted for her wedding dress, she is startled and faints when she sees in the newspaper that Noah has completed the house to the specifications she made years before, and is trying to sell it.Īllie is overwhelmed with memories and unresolved feelings for Noah, and asks permission from Lon to take a trip before the wedding. It is then that he convinces himself that if he restores the house, Allie will come back to him. While visiting Charleston to get his building plans approved, Noah glimpses Allie from a bus, abruptly pulls the door open, jumps off the bus and chases after her, only to witness Allie and Lon kissing at a restaurant. When Noah returns from the war, his father, who eventually dies, reveals that he has sold their home so that Noah can buy the Windsor Plantation. After a few years of being together, the two become engaged, to the delight of Allie's parents. Meanwhile, Allie attends college and also volunteers as a nurse's aide in a hospital for wounded soldiers, where she meets Captain Lon Hammond Jr., a young lawyer who comes from old Southern money. While apart, Noah enlists with Fin to fight in World War II, where Fin is killed in battle. After 365 letters, Noah gives up and stops writing. Noah writes a letter to Allie every day for a year, but it is later revealed that Allie's mother had been intercepting the letters so that they never reach Allie. When Noah receives the message, he rushes to Allie's home, only to find the house gated up and empty. Allie attempts to find Noah at the lumber mill, but he is out delivering a load, so she asks Fin to tell Noah that she loves him. The next morning, Anne announces that the family is returning home to Charleston that same day. After revealing to Allie that he does not think their relationship will work, an argument ensues, leading Allie to break up with Noah in the heat of the moment as he leaves, though she quickly regrets it. Overhearing Allie's mother's insults, which include going as far as to call him trash, Noah walks out and Allie chases after him. When Allie and Noah return to her parents' mansion, it is revealed that due to their difference in social class, Allie's parents, particularly her mother Anne, do not approve of the relationship and forbid her from seeing him. They are soon interrupted by Noah's friend Fin with the news that Allie's parents have the police looking for her. While there, they attempt to have sex for the first time, in spite of Allie being nervous and rambling. One evening, he takes her to the abandoned Windsor Plantation that he intends to buy and restore for them. He pursues her, and they begin a summer romance. In 1940, at a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, poor lumber mill worker Noah Calhoun sees 17-year-old heiress Allison "Allie" Hamilton, who is spending the summer in town with her parents. At a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man, Duke, reads a romantic story from his notebook to a fellow patient. ![]()
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