![]() ![]() The story of Dexter and Emma, who officially “meet” on the night of their college graduation, One Day follows them through relationships, vacations, career changes, grief, highs and lows of every variety - and each chapter represents another year gone as we catch up with Dex and Em each July 15. “You may say to yourself, my God, what have I done?”ĭavid Nicholls’ One Day, a novel told over a twenty-year period, seems to exemplify everything represented by that tune: the turns and changes that bring us up from the ambitious, wild-eyed and free-spirited twenty-somethings we once were to the pragmatic, loyal and tightly-bound adults we become. ![]() “And you may ask yourself, where does that highway lead to? And you may ask yourself, am I right, am I wrong? “And you may ask yourself, what is that beautiful house?” he ponders. Anyone remember that old tune by Talking Heads - the one that’s come to exemplify life for the suburban middle class? In “Once In A Lifetime,” the singer laments the passage of time and wonders how he’s come to wind up where he has - and in what state. ![]()
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