This month Nicholas Sparks is releasing a new book. Gather is giving you a chance to win a copy of his book "The Last Song", as well as a prize pack of other Nicholas Sparks books! Here is what you could win:
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.
The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.
For your chance to win, tell us about a love in your life, that may be of a romantic or of a friendly nature.
Gather will draw ten respondents who comment at the end of this post to receive a set of these books. Comments must be posted by Monday, September 14th.
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tell us about a love in your life, that may be of a romantic or of a friendly nature.
My only loves are my kiddos, my dogs, and my cats:)
My husband is my best-friend, we've been together for 15+ years and married for 11. I wouldn't want to spend a day without him in my life.
3 years later we got back together and have been together another 2 years.
I always think of that saying "if you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you it was yours to begin with, if not, it wasn't" I wonder if he thinks that way since he let me go to begin with.
My 2nd is my husband Tim, we've been married 12 wonderful yrs
and counting.
also my love for my Daughter. She is the greatest kid ever. She
is so smart and I am so proud of her.
My parents and my siblings, my niece and 2 nephews
and all of my friends online an off.
The most precious and unforgettable love in my life is that of my children. I never imagined the love that you can feel for your own child. When my oldest son was first born
I experienced the most dramatic feeling one can imagine. Knowing you would give your life for that child if need be.
It is a love that is blind to any imperfection. It is Perfect.
My husband and I come from two different corners of the world, and we traveled far to find each other. He grew up in a small village in Jamaica, and I grew up in a farm in the Danish country side. It always amazes me how different our worlds were growing up, yet they are similar in so many ways.
When all was done and my son's quaking body had calmed, I understood the boundlessness of love. Because no matter what the diagnosis would be, there was no doubt that I would never be complete without him and that our family would fight to give him whatever he needed to be healthy.
*(My son is fine and healthy - he had suffered from a swelling in his brain because he was in the birth canal too long. The cause for my OBGYN's 1 hour delay in reaching me after I was clearly ready to give birth is still a mystery that the nurses could/would not explain.)
I would also love to read this book! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
The love of my life is my husband. But he is more than that, he is my best friend, he is the person who I can laugh with and the person who I can cry with it. He is the best person I could ever ended up with. We have been together for 4 year and married for 1 and half. This summer I have traveled to Europe by myself to see my family. While I was gone for 3 weeks I realize how much we miss each other, how lonely it is wothout him even if I am having great time. He is my soulmate and I love him very much.
However, if I could choose anything, then I would have my life frozen when I was 10, 11, or 12 and be a kid forever with my teenager older brother, my fun little brother, and my parents in the prime of life. I love my my parents and brothers more than anybody, and life would be ideal if I would have never tasted the fruit of adulthood. My family is the real love of my life.
He's my soulmate, my best friend, my husband and lover! He is also my confidant!! I can talk to him about anything and know he will listen without judgement. He makes me feel special and that is something I wouldn't trade for anything in the world.
And as in the fairy tales, we will live happily ever after!
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Frst, the no-brainer : he is a cutie! (t least to me) Most people who know him say he is almost too good to be true. He appreciates me for who I am and what I have become as a person is because of his input. He values my inputs all the time. he affirms me and tells me he loves me every single day of our lives. He listens to me when I talk - regardless whether I make sense or not...he just listens ( I trained him well, LOL!) he stays cool in the midst of problems. By the way, my hubby is very romantic ( he likes to express himself all the time - whether verbal or physical and makes sure he spends time with me. invites me to date regularly ( watch movies, eat out, have breakfast early saturday morning, stroll inside the mall...just to be with me...aaahhhh....isnt that really sweet!!!!!
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Just want to say Kudos to you for your work.
The major love of my life has always been my only child, my daughter. Now that could be a good thing or a bad thing, it depends on what role a person plays or used to play in my life. :-)
My parents have always been the loves of my life........I have always loved them so very, very much but didn't realize the depth and intensity until I lost them both. I am an only child in my family with no siblings; however, God has so richly blessed my life and I have a very, very rich, fulfilling life that now, whenever I think of them, it's not so much with tears, as it is with smiles and thankfulness that i was so very, very blessed.
Oh......yeah.....guess I had better say the husband as well.....LOL.....seeing as how we've been married for 31 years!
Joe and I are made specifically for each other. We're just supposed to be together. I feel like we just fit each other so perfectly. To stray from all of my Nicholas Sparks comparisons, he and I just have a love like that I've never seen before. Not to say that our love is better than any one else's... I'm just saying, we're overcoming so many obstacles it's insane right now. We got married on July 12, and he left July 23 for training. I haven't seen him since. Some weeks, I don't even get a phone call. It's a good week if I've gotten more than one call. Sometimes all I get is a text message. And this is all training for him being gone for 9 months, with very little contact- and what contact we do have, they are saying will probably be through letters. I just feel like our love is the kind that is overcoming obstacles, especially when I see close friends who are in similar situations to me, whose relationships get torn apart...
After that moment, my grandma and I both knew that he was "the one." We've been together for 5 years and married for almost 1 now! :]
You see, when I was born my mother was just 18, just getting out of high school. My grandparents helped her take care of me because she was forced to work long hours to be able to support me. Before I came along, ever since my mother had been five or so, my grandfather fell into a nervous breakdown. He never left the house and he rarely did much of anything.
When I was born, my grandfather wanted nothing to do with me. He had raised 4 kids and helped raise 4 grandkids already. I was the 9th. In the midst of his breakdown, he'd had enough. But my mother was still healing from having me and she needed my grandmother's help to do things. So, when I started crying and my mother needed help at the same time, I was immediately dumped into my grandfather's arms.
When my mother and grandmother came back, I had stopped crying and he was talking to me and rocking me. That year at Christmas, when I was only three months old, he went out for the first time in a long time to buy me my first Christmas dress.
From then on, we were pretty much inseparable. When they moved out of state, I waited until I graduated from high school to follow then (and thankfully my husband...boyfriend at the time...followed me!).
It's certainly not a romantic sort of love and it's not really a friendly sort of love, either. It's the love that only family and close friends could possibly know. The sort of love that two family members or friends who must have been brought together by fate could know. :)
I don't know why I was born when I was or why it triggered the affects it did, but I know that my grandfather's still going strong at 78 and now he laughs all the time, loves his family, and has lots of friends! That's the best anyone could ever ask for after everything.
My husband is always there when I need him. He is wonderful at everything he does. He gives me the desire to be the best that I can be. We talk about everything. I have no secrets from him. I trust him totally and depend on him more than I should. He is the love of my life, my husband, my best friend and the father to both our children.
I know I could live without him but I don't want to. I love this man more than anything.
We both experienced very hurtful experiences in our respective relationships and found ourselves alone. Both of us had seriously compromised self-esteem and wondered if we could even regain the people we used to be before all the negativity in our lives. Our friendship evolved slowly, meaningfully, based on common interests (he's a hidden poet, too, gotta get him to come out with it).
Over time, romance entered our friendship. I never imagined such passion could occur with a "friend". I always dreamed passion would ride up on a white horse and sweep me away. Passion slowly enveloped us over time, took us over and still grows and flowers everyday. It is the ultimate love story, proving love does conquer and heal all :)
The loves in my life are my boyfriend and my kids. They are my purpose and my life and I'm happy everything has turned out the way it has, though it has been one heck of a bumpy ride! After 8 years we are like an old married couple, but I'm happy about where we are and where we are going.
I love my sisters to and would move heaven and earth for them. The one thing I have learned about loving them though, is that I always get that love back tenfold.
The love of my Father is so much more real now that I have my children. I can understand the love of God on such a deep level because of them.
There is nothing like watching them discover something new and seeing the eyes of the young and the curiosity that comes with the look.
That is until we talked in the driveway one night past curfew. He walked me to the house and my stepfather threw him out. It seemed to crush him. He retreated into his room and gave up dating all together. I still wonder about him. He had such a sweet spirit.