Can't buy the love story

During the truck ride to town there was a small discussion that told us that they did have some contact back in their 20s. Melanie told Christopher that she received his letter ......but it was too late. By the time that the letter arrived she was already married and was going to have a baby. It was unclear just how much contact they had had.

I think they could because their being together in that prison camp and wondering if they would live or die would bring closer together and an expeience that they cannot forget. Look how she kept records on the people that were there. She cannot move on. It stays in her head

I really can believe. It is because of the horrific event they shared caused them to romantisice about the whole thing that Melanies family cannot understand. Only those two children bonded together. Jakob was like a shepherd watching over his sheep and helping them in the ordeal and that ordeal they have not forgotten and cant forget. They were all they had

Maybe the problem is that the original poster can't imagine anyone that old falling in love. Secret for the young uns--people can fall in love at any age.

Maybe you've not yet felt that overwhelming connection with a person.....that stuns or shocks your system to the core.

I am in my mid 40's and saddened by your comments, that you have to "be" around someone to "be" in love. Letters, memories, take hold and as long as we don't put those memories on a pedestal or make the memories more than they were...love can last and deepen over time, even if we aren't near the person we love.

I've always said that parents who make fun of their children or say they can't know what love is at a young age, are forgetting. Or they just never experienced that kind of connection themselves at a young age. Your comments kind of remind me of that.

Love is ageless.....it can take hold of us at 10 and last until we are 90, or take hold of us at 50, 60 and older and last until we die.

Memories of survival, where people depend on each other not just for the basics, but to truly survive emotionally, are so much more intense than I can even imagine. Those are emotions we can't dismiss, or make fun of....until we live through some horrible trauma ourselves, we can't even begin to understand the connection, that stays over time. It is a part of them...that will never leave, never truly fade, that helped to form who they became, despite other loves, other family and friends. Their friendship and love for each other as children....saved them. Why wouldn't it last through the ages? It is an unconditional and lasting love.

Not trying to annoy, but am so disappointed when anyone of any age can't imagine that a love from long ago or anytime can't last or be rekindled years later.

It can and it does.

Thanks.

Thanks for the comments. Those who failed to actually read my initial comment might want to do so. I was not expressing doubt that two people would bond deeply under such circumstances, or doubt that people over 40 do fall in love, as some stupidly suggested, but rather that I find it implausible that the deep emotional connection forged between two pre-adolescents would somehow transmute into romantic love despite their not having being in contact between pre-adolescence and maturity. I'm no psychologist, so I may well be wrong. Stranger things have happened.