“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.”
I completely fell in love with this story. I was overwhelmed with emotions the entire time. I felt everything.
Allyson Healey, or Lulu, was in Europe for a youth vacation type of thing. Here she met Willem, the complete opposite of her. He was an actor doing an underground performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The second they meet, something sizzled between them. He offered to take her to Paris for one day. Since she wasn’t able to go there on her trip, she decided to go for it and do something totally opposite of her norm.
She spent the entire day doing things that she never would have done. Willem opened her eyes to life’s possibilities. She learned more about herself, in that one day, than she did in the past 18 years.
She learned to take risks.
“I think everything is happening is happening all the time, but if you don’t out yourself in the path of it, you miss it.”
She learned about love.
“It’s something that never comes off, no matter how much you might want it to.”
“You’re comparing love to a…stain?”
…”Exactly.”
She also learns that life is about accidents and the scars they leave behind. The world is filled with them. You just have to take notice of them.
She spends all day and night with him and in the morning she wakes up alone.
Devastated, she goes home and tries to move on in a life that no longer feels like hers anymore. Nothing feels right. College is all about her parents wishes and she struggles with trying to figure out who she really is, Willem’s Lulu or plain Allyson. She spends the next year just getting by.
Seeing her heart break and watching her struggle with the every day things, broke my heart. I was devastated for her. It was just one day, but that’s all it took for her life to be completely upturned.
“I realize it’s not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.”
She eventually changes the direction of her life and embarks on a journey to find herself and a love that was lost, but not forgotten. The journey is filled with ups and downs, but totally it’s worth it, if you find yourself along the way.
5 emotional stars
~Melpomene
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