If only he had saved Jed's 29 messages in a single day. If only he and Clarissa had gone straight home from the airport. I close my eyes and see you as you were last night in the rain, across the road from me, with the unspoken love between us as strong as steel cable.") Worst of all, Jed's version of love comes to seem a distortion of Joe's feelings for Clarissa.Īpart from the incessant stalking, it is the conditionals-the contingencies-that most frustrate Joe, a scientific journalist. (One insane epistle begins, "I feel happiness running through me like an electrical current. Soon he's openly shadowing Joe and writing him endless letters. For Jed is instantly obsessed, making the first of many calls to Joe and Clarissa's London flat that same night. Meeting the eye of fellow rescuer Jed Parry, for example, turns out to be a very bad move. But fate has far more unpleasant things in store for Joe. In itself, the accident would change the couple and the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, happiness, and endless self-reproach. The perfect day turns to nightmare however, when they are involved in freak ballooning accident in which a boy is saved but a man is killed. Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after 6 weeks in the States.
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