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A TWIST OF FATE?
My gaze returns to earth and when it does, it’s her eyes I see. Not the way I used to see them—around every corner, behind my own closed lids at the start of each day. Not in the way I used to imagine them in the eyes of every other girl I laid on top of. No, this time it really is her eyes. A photo of her, dressed in black, a cello leaning against one shoulder like a tired child. Her hair is up in one of those buns that seem to be a requisite for classical musicians. She used to wear it up like that for recitals and chamber music concerts, but with little pieces hanging down, to soften the severity of the look. There are no tendrils in this photo. I peer closer at the sign. YOUNG CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS MIA HALL.
Also By Gayle Forman
Sisters in Sanity
If I Stay
Just One Day
Just One Year
Just One Night
(e-special)
I Was Here
Table of Contents
A Twist of Fate?
Also by Gayle Forman
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
Acknowledgements
Shuffle
Lyrics
Playlist
Discussion Questions
Special Excerpt from If I Stay
Special Excerpt from Just One Day
Special Excerpt from I Was Here
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Where she went / by Gayle Forman.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Sequel to: If I Stay
Summary: Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
ISBN: 978-1-101-47632-1
[1. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 2. Emotional problems—Fiction. 3. Rock music—Fictional. 4. Violoncello—Fiction. 5. New York (NY) —Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.F75876Wh 2011
[Fic] —dc22 2010013474
FOR MY PARENTS :
for saying I can.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
Excerpt from “Love is not all:
it is not meat nor drink.”
BY EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
ONE
Every morning I wake up and I tell...