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Now THIS is how a love story should read –
the young man dies in an avalanche and
when Death meets him, He says ‘Wherever
you go, you go together’ and leads him
to his eighteen-year old bride
She tells him that when he vanished, she
lived till she was seventy, then Death came
and made her young again and brought her
here, to her long-lost love, he smiles and
remarks wonderingly
‘But I had my accident just now, how could
all that time have passed?’ She smiles back
at him with the eyes of an eighteen-year old
lass who had just danced the tango with
Death himself
THIS is what romance is all about, thank you
Terry Pratchett, I shall always remember this
when coming across another story of a
long-lost love…
“Reaper Man” Terry Pratchett, Gollancz, 1991
p. 243 (Tango) p. 246 ‘Wherever you go,
you go together’
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