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Very rarely can a person feel sympathy and understanding from a non-living thing. Sure, squeezing a teddy bear can give you a sense of comfort, but realistically, you can't carry that kind of faux-security with you your whole life or share stories of its devotion and support with your peers. In my entire life, I can only think of one inanimate object that related so closely to something I was experiencing that it brought tears to my eyes as well as opened them to new perspectives. Nicholas Spark's A Walk to Remember brought me comfort and acceptance, as well as a sense of faith and a newfound respect for life and love. A Walk to Remember, in many ways, is a coming of age story. It is told from the first person perspective of Landon Carter, a wrong-way kid that ends up on the right track. Now in his 50's, he is remarrying and while visiting Beaufort, North Carolina, the town he grew up in, Landon remembers his first real love, Jamie Sullivan. She was the last person Landon would ever think to become friends with, let alone fall in love with and never forget. The daughter of a minister, Jamie seemed like the quintessential goody-two-shoes. She cared for her father, volunteered at the orphanage, got good grades, sang in the churc