an excerpt from 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 goodbye is both a goodbye 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 I 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 reason neither of us understands, we've been forced to
say goodbye.

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 goodbye, 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."