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A Brutal Autopsy And Angela's Requited Love
Ch. 4. Possible journal foci: A brutal autopsy and Angela's prolific missives…requited love, at long last? Why does Bayardo return and what do the letters mean? Apply any of the aspects of magic realism that we have addressed so far, or do an analysis of language.

Upon reading about Angela's letters to Bayardo, my thoughts veered towards the move The Notebook. In this popular love story, based off the book written by Nicholas Sparks, after being separated from his sweetheart Allie Hamilton, Ryan Calhoun writes to her everyday for a year, with the hopes that she still remembers him. After a year of receiving no reply, he gives up, thinking that Allie decided to forget or put aside their summer love. Allie never replied to Ryan's letter for
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