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KATE: You weren't there. You didn't come.

ALEX: I don't understand. Something must have happened. I'm sorry. I've got two years, Kate. We can try again.

KATE: No, Alex, it's too late. It already happened. It didn't work.

ALEX: Don't give up on me, Kate. What about "Persuasion"? You told me, they wait. They meet again, they have another chance.

KATE: Life is not a book, Alex. And it can be over in a second. I was having lunch with my mother at Daley Plaza, and a man was killed right in front of me. He died in my arms. And i thought: "It can't end just like that on Valentine's Day". I thought about all the people who love him, waiting at home who will never see him again. And then, I thought: "What if there is no one?" what if you live your whole life and no one is waiting? So I drove to the lake house looking for any kind of answer. And I found you. And I let myself get lost. Lost in this beautiful fantasy where time stood still. But it's not real, Alex. I have to learn to live the life that I have got. Please don't write anymore. Don't try to find me. Let me let you go.


- an excerpt from the movie "THE LAKE HOUSE" with Keanu Reeves as Alex and Sandra Bullock as Kate