Nights in Rodanthe

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His practice boomed, his income multiplied, and he started to accumulate things.†

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A benign cyst, it wasn't a life-threatening ailment, but it was unsightly, to say the least.†

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Chiding herself, she moved behind the desk.†

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Though she specialized in estate law while Jack worked in general litigation, Adrienne knew their cases sometimes overlapped and required a collaboration, so it didn't surprise her to see them dining with each other.†

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No, it was his genuine desire to change—to be a better person than he had been—that she found most compelling.†

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"In other words, you're telling me that your son, the conscientious doctor, went through all this, too, so I shouldn't lose hope?"†

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Despite the rain, they talked; Adrienne noticed that he kept the conversation light, far from anything that could be construed the wrong way.†

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As she opened the refrigerator to get the chicken out, she watched him from the corner of her eye, thinking it was both nice—and a little disconcerting—to know that he'd be helping her in the kitchen.†

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His wrinkled pants lent a disheveled air to his appearance that grew more pronounced as the years wore on, especially after the passing of his wife.†

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Their lives were diverging because of responsibilities to others, and it suddenly seemed cruelly unfair to Adrienne.†

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Three years earlier, on a warm November morning in 1999, Adrienne Willis had returned to the Inn and at first glance had thought it unchanged, as if the small Inn were impervious to sun and sand and salted mist.†

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He could understand Adrienne's reservations—they all lived in a world defined by limits, after all, and those didn't always allow for spontaneity, for impulsive attempts to live in the moment.†

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She was neither depressed nor happy, neither excited nor languid, neither interested nor bored by anything around her.†

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After washing the dishes, his father would migrate to the living room and peruse farm reports, while Paul immersed himself in books.†

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She'd known people like him before in her life—like physicians, attorneys were often notorious workaholics—but she had yet to come across someone who'd not only made the decision to change the rules that he'd always lived by, but was doing so in a way that most people would be terrified to contemplate.†

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Gone was the roar of waves and the persistent drumming of the storm, the crackling of the fire.†

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He wanted to fix the flaws he recognized in himself, he wanted to forge a relationship with his estranged son, he had come here because a stranger seeking redress from him had sent a note requesting it.†

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He could understand Adrienne's reservations—they all lived in a world defined by limits, after all, and those didn't always allow for spontaneity, for impulsive attempts to live in the moment.†

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Wedged against the wall beneath the bed was a small stationery box, and Adrienne set it on the pillow beside her.†

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Part of me yearns to jump on a plane and come to see you now, but if this is as real as I think it is, I'm sure we can make it.†