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Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping

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Eleanor & Park: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell poetry A fig tree stretches throughBono met his wife in high school, Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be, she says, we're 16. What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you, Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star crossed misfits smart enough to know that first love almost never