A good-bye letter.

By Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook.

"The reason it hurts so much to separate

is because our souls are connected. Maybe

they always have been and will be. Maybe

we've lived a thousand lives before this one

and in each of them we've found each

other. And maybe each time, we've been

forced apart for the same reasons. That

means that this good-bye is both a good-

bye for the past ten thousand years and a

prelude to what will come.

When I look at you, I see your beauty

and grace and know they have grown

stronger with every life you have lived. And

I know I have spent every life before this

one searching for you. Not someone like

you, but you, for your soul and mine must

always come together. And then, for a rea-

son neither of us understands, we've been

forced to say good-bye.

I would love to tell you that everything

will work out for us, and I promise to do

all I can to make sure it does. But if we

never meet again and this is truly good-bye,

I know we will see each other again in

another life. We will find each other again,

and maybe the stars will have changed, and

we will not only love each other in that

time, but for all the times we've had before."