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State of Happiness

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At what I first thought was a fairly flimsy, not-so-interesting start of the story; what with the meeting, and work, and getting to know each other, I first found cindy and Jack to be boring people. Just another city couple, staying at each others apartment and so forth. Then, when the story delves an ocean's depth deeper into Cindy's character as being the intense, very deep-thinking cartographer she is, I pushed myself to connect with her. Jack was simply the good boyfriend catering to her best interests. At times I thought Cindy was being a little bit to self-centred, still Jack gave in to make her the queen she deserved to be to him. It's a perfect momentary self-satisfaction through reading thinking of the possibilities of a guy like Jack to be around in the real world. When Cindy fell sick, the whole tale went from deep to i'm-lost-in-the-Pacific intense. It carried on to the chapters where Cindy simply 'gave in' and lived through the beauty she created living with her terminal ailment, edging toward expiration. Jack was always by her side, bathed her, fed her, took her to the hospital and walks by the beach, crying with her, crying for her. Cindy was lost in a world of her own mind-authority, Jack was her neutralizer. She mapped her final life-period, Jack mopped her stains of ill. With all the deeds and powerful, to-cry-for love that kept popping up so many times during Cindy's sickness, readers can only make up the endings they'd want, but left broken when in the end stunned with the honest fact. We only read.

This is an excellent book and I'll recommend it to friends. If you've ever lost anyone to cancer it's a must read, and if you haven't, well it is as well. Great narratives, so "real" -will look into more works by this author.