The "gift" of time
Adaline grew up in a privileged family. She harvested beautiful love in the season of love, and soon got married and gave birth to a lovely daughter. Everything was as expected, everything was impeccable.
Unfortunately, however, her husband died when a scaffold collapsed on the construction site; on a dark night after her husband's death, she drove to her parents' seaside villa to meet her daughter. At a sharp turn, her car lost control, overrun the guardrail and fell into the river. Heavy snowfall in Sonoma County, California, made this night an extraordinary one.
She was already close to death, when suddenly a bolt of lightning fell from the air into the water and passed through her body. Her heart resumed beating and her consciousness became clear. She swam back to the shore, thinking that she just had an ordinary traffic accident, but she never thought that since then, her body has stayed at the age of 27, her figure has not changed, and her appearance has not changed. What has changed is only her knowledge, her experience, and her ability to deal with the dangerous living environment.
The ladies who knew her well praised her for her youth and beauty, saying that she and her gradually mature daughter could call each other sisters; the traffic police checked her passport, and she was obviously 45 years old, and she was like 20 people. The traffic police were puzzled and amazed.
Her ageless looks made her suspicious and undercover by the FBI. They escorted her into a car and attempted to keep her secretly or even taxidermy. In that dark rainy day, taking advantage of the FBI's unguarded, she tried her best to escape from the trunk of the car in a messy clothes; because she was afraid of involving her young and innocent daughter, she moved around and fled, using a master forgery of documents. The help changes her name and identity every ten years, so she has not been with her daughter since high school
When she was young, she loved the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. They each accompanied her through a short life, but because they lost to her powerful vitality, they only said goodbye to her forever; her daughter was old. , suffering from illness. When she planned to move closer to her daughter next time, her daughter settled in a nursing home for the rest of her life...
love
In 1929, Adaline met her former husband.
It was in front of the unfinished building of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the wind tossed her straw hat, revealing her charming blond curls. A young engineer picked up the straw hat from a distance, and the two stopped looking at each other and fell in love at first sight. Three months later they had a grand wedding in the church, and three years later, they had the crystallization of love.
But the happy days did not last long. In early 1937, an accident occurred during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, killing two engineers and eight workers. Her husband's name was on the death list. That man left this world at the best age, leaving her to miss him for the rest of her life. Decades later, Adeline still has a sketch of her husband in her boudoir; she will often look through old photos in old wooden boxes, recalling her past with her husband.
She has experienced eternal love.
two
One afternoon in the sixties, Adaline's car broke down on a country road in London. William, who was still studying in medical school at the time, happened to pass by on a bicycle and looked at her moving face, and his heart secretly felt affection. With William's help, Adaline drove away. The man was disappointed, thinking that he would never see each other again in this life, but he didn't expect the woman to suddenly turn around not far after driving out.
Two happy and sweet five weeks.
They went to America to play, to explore and play in the forest. Adaline's hand was scratched by a branch, and William sutured the wound for her in poor conditions. They talk about life and ideals. Confused about his future medical path, William chose the path of astronomy and devoted the rest of his life to it because of Adaline's encouragement to him that "you should pursue what you really want when you are young". Adaline, who had not received the warmth of love for a long time, also let go of herself timidly. She gave up her fake names and identities, and got along with him in the character of her real name. They fell in love with vigour.
That day, William Joadaline met on a park bench. William was playing with a small black box in his hand, which contained a dazzling engagement ring. He wanted to propose to Adeline and marry her. Adeline, who was watching from a distance in the taxi, was full of pain and contradictions in her heart. In the end, she let his pigeons go and disappeared again incognito.
He missed her for forty years. She loved him.
She has experienced love that is really in her hands, but she reluctantly gave up because of cowardice.
three
When Ellis first met Adaline, Adaline was sitting on the stone steps in front of the Archives, engrossed in reading a Braille book. She was wearing a light blue dress with soft blonde hair braided behind her head. Ellis reluctantly moved, thinking about meeting this special woman again in the future.
The 107-year-old Adaline was at a friend's banquet when Adaline met Ellis's familiar gaze, and her heart was filled with waves. Ellis talked sweetly in the elevator, and then went to great lengths to find the archives where Adaline worked, and donated books to win the smile of beauty. He took the woman to see the remains of a gold rush wooden boat left in the coal mine, and went to great lengths to invite her to his home and cook for him.
Adaline tried her best to restrain her emotions because she wanted to give up her current identity, but she fell under the strong attack of this man. Adaline tried to escape again. It was her 84-year-old daughter who encouraged her to accept love bravely. For those who have come to the end of their lives, they know how precious love is. They finally fell in love with each other generously.
When Ellis brought the beautiful girlfriend home for his parents' 40th wedding anniversary, Ellis' father was stunned by his son's girlfriend, who looked exactly like the bride he ran away from 52 years ago ! Ellis's father is the same William who had fallen in love with Adaline 52 years ago.
Although Adaline tried her best to hide her embarrassment and lied that it was her mother, she was eventually seen by William because of a scar on her hand. William asked her the truth in pain and despair, and for the first time she had carefully told her secret to anyone other than her daughter.
Once the secret is revealed, she no longer has the courage to face Ellis again. She wanted to bravely pursue a love, but time, the biggest enemy, made her defeated. She fled Ellis's home in a hurry, driving away alone in a trance.
She drove through Sonoma County, California. After a lapse of 78 years, this place had another strange snowfall, just like the night when the time had worked its magic on her.
In a trance, her car rolled over the guardrail. Her body was thrown out of the car and her heartbeat slowly stopped. Then Ellis, who was driving to find her, desperately pounced on her icy body in an attempt to save her life. The medical staff who finally arrived cut her clothes off and used a defibrillator to get her heart pumping again.
When she opened her eyes and saw Ellis's face in the hospital, she knew that she had fallen in love with Ellis uncontrollably. The dream about the gift of time that had haunted her for many years, she chose to tell him unreservedly.
getting old
A year later, Ellis and Adaline went to a party together. When Adailyn was carefully finishing her makeup and hair, she suddenly found that there was an extra white hair on her head.
Because of that dying electric shock, time took back the magic it had cast on her. She can finally be a 29-year-old ordinary woman. She can finally worry about the gray hair and wrinkles that will be born in the future, she can finally go back to the normal life path, grow old steadily, and grow old with her lover in the light, with many children and grandchildren.
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