A Walk to Remember begins in retrospect: The narrator, Landon Carter, remembers his life 40 years earlier, when he was a young man of 17, living in the same small North Carolina town, which has changed substantially. Standing near a Baptist church, Landon recalls that the events that occurred that year changed his life forever and also changed the lives of those around him then. Readers are told that those events were both sad and joyful and that in hearing the story, they will both smile and cry.
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