After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with each other. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story to an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss.
