Every April, when the wind blows from the sea and mingles with the scent of lilacs, Landon Carter remembers his last year at Beaufort High. It was 1958, and Landon had already dated a girl or two. He swore that he had never been in love. Certainly the last person in town he thought he would fall for was Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's Baptist minister. When a prank on a fellow high-school student goes wrong, Landon is acting in the drama club's final production, the spring play. When Landon realizes that he needs help learning his lines for the play, he asks Jamie for help. The public humiliation started when some of Landon's friends took a picture of a model; put Jamie's face on it. They put the caption "Virgin Mary?" on the right-bottom corner. Then they started mass-distributing the image.…
