Veronica spends her summer with her father in North Carolina after her parents' divorce three years prior. She ignores her father at first but bonds with him over time. Veronica also meets and starts dating a boy named Will. However, Veronica's father becomes ill with stomach cancer and only has less than a year to live. Veronica stays to take care of her father in his final days. They share a final song together on the piano before he passes away.
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This is the Story of a 17 Years Old Girl Named Veronica
Veronica spends her summer with her father in North Carolina after her parents' divorce three years prior. She ignores her father at first but bonds with him over time. Veronica also meets and starts dating a boy named Will. However, Veronica's father becomes ill with stomach cancer and only has less than a year to live. Veronica stays to take care of her father in his final days. They share a final song together on the piano before he passes away.
Veronica spends her summer with her father in North Carolina after her parents' divorce three years prior. She ignores her father at first but bonds with him over time. Veronica also meets and starts dating a boy named Will. However, Veronica's father becomes ill with stomach cancer and only has less than a year to live. Veronica stays to take care of her father in his final days. They share a final song together on the piano before he passes away.
Veronica, whose life is turned upside down since her
parents got divorced. Three years after her parent divorce, Veronica is still mad at them for choosing to be separated. Even more mad when her dad moved to North Carolina from New York. Her mother tells her that she should spend her whole summer with her father. When she agrees to go to North Carolina with her brother, she still hasn’t spoken to her father. When they arrived to their father’s house, you can see it in his father’s eyes that he is happy to see his daughter and son again though she still ignoring his father.
One day she decided to have a walk around the
neighborhood where she met Will. They spend too much time together until they grew feelings toward each other. In that time Will has a girlfriend but he still can’t stop thinking about Veronica.
In the other side, her father and brother is spending
a lot of time together. He taught him how to surf and have a lot of bonding to remember. Every night he is waiting for Veronica to come home, Veronica always wants to come home late every day to avoid her father. He always sit on his piano and plays a song. He feels sad because of the tarnished relationship he had with his daughter at that time Veronica realized what she did and that she is here to spend and make time for her father. Then she decided to make an effort, she started eating breakfast with him, watched their favorite movie together, keeping him company and spend a father and daughter bonding. This is where she realized how she is kind a stupid for ignoring her father for such a long time. Days past Will broke up with his girlfriend and started to court Veronica. It doesn’t took long and they become an official couple.
Then one day Veronica noticed something strange to
his father. He keeps on getting weaker and weaker each day. But she just shake that thought, think positive and pray, until one night her father was coughing fit until his face was covered up of blood. At that moment she was afraid because she knows that there is something terribly wrong about her father.
They learned that he has a stomach cancer that is
spreading across his organs and he is going to die in less than a year. They spent their last days taking good care of their father. Veronica and Will broke up as Will is going to continue his college in Europe. She decided to stay while his brother returns to New York as she continue to take care of her father she discovered that she is working on an unfinished song, she decided to work it out and finish the song for her father. After the song has been finished, she plays it to him on the piano which become their last song. After a while she discovered that her father wasn’t breathing anymore. Veronica plays their last song during the burial of her father. Then one day she received a phone call from Will saying he has decided to request a transfer to Columbia University to be with her.
(Early Modern Literature in History) John Dolan - Poetic Occasion From Milton To Wordsworth (Early Modern Literature in History) (2000, Palgrave Macmillan)