![]() ![]() Noah is a simple man who spends his days kayaking, reading poetry, and playing guitar with his neighbor Gus. Noah is proud of the work he’s done on the old plantation house-a few weeks ago, a reporter even came to interview him about it and take pictures. As dusk falls, Noah sits on the porch of his sprawling home in New Bern, North Carolina. The story flashes back to October of 1946. Noah is hopeful that today will be the day a miracle happens. Noah wanders down the cold halls of the nursing home to visit the room of another patient-a woman-who barely acknowledges him as he sits down beside her, opens up a small notebook, and begins to read to her. ![]() Noah knows that he has lived an ordinary life by most people’s standards, but he insists that having known “perfect love” has been enough for him. Eighty-year-old Noah Calhoun, who lives in a nursing home in North Carolina, describes the lonely and sometimes painful nature of his final days. ![]()
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