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I had never dreamed of being a soldier; I had never fired a gun. I was not, nor ever had been, a fighter of any sort, but even so, I loved my country, and I spent much of that year trying to imagine a future distorted by war.

— Nicholas Sparks The Longest Ride (2013)

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While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that would never change.

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Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

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