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The story reminds me of a Colbie Caillat song called, “I Never Told You.” The song’s lyrics say, “I miss your blue eyes every time I close mine, you make it hard to see where I belong to when I’m not around you. And now I miss everything about you, now you’re gone.” It tells the story of a couple who split up, and now the singer is missing the other desperately, wishing they could be together again. This is similar to the book in that in the end, Landon is missing Jamie and wishing that they could be together.

In the novel, Landon plays a role in the Christmas play at the school. This reminds me of different theater productions that I’ve been in, such as Fiddle on the Roof. He is completely in awe of the way Jamie is transformed for her character as the Angel, and I remember being amazed at how different we all looked in character with our make-up and costumes.

The story kind of reminds me of the movie “Sixteen Candles.” This is because the girl and the guy who end up together are not what anyone expected. I don’t think that Landon ever thought he’d fall for a girl like Jamie, and although Jamie seems to think he was sent to her, I don’t think she would’ve imagined that they would fall in love so deeply. In “Sixteen Candles,” Samantha doesn’t think Jake even knows who she is, when in fact he does, and they end up together unexpectedly too.

In the story, Jamie is the girl that everyone makes fun of, but it’s just because she’s so good. This reminds me that there are people in our school who maybe at times we make fun of that we shouldn’t, because you never know when something tragic like this might happen. We have recently been reminded again of how death can happen in our lives anytime and to any of us, and the loss that we feel is terrible enough, without feelings of guilt for not being nice to that person.

Jamie likes to help at the orphanage, and I can connect this to my life in that I do mentoring at the elementary school. Jamie says that she loves to work with the kids and see their faces light up when they see her, and this is for mostly the same reason that I like going to mentoring.