Did Candy find her happiness? (Part 1)

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  1. Fay says:

    This is a very interesting and insightful post. You have done a brilliant analysis here. I’ll start saying that the picture is wonderful and I want to believe that this is exactly what it was like in Lakewood when Candy and Albert were there. I couldn’t imagine a better and more romantic setting than that. I envy you for having such a beautiful neighborhood.

    You are right that both novels have their merits. Mizuki wanted to improve upon her story, that’s why she wrote CCFS. However, the old novel has also many interesting information. So your idea about comparing the two novels would be very welcome. I’m looking forward to it.

    About the trip to Lakewood, I think that it is a blessing Mizuki put this in the new novel instead of the old one. (Although I would love to see that in the manga version too.) I agree about that embrace. Albert did take Candy in his arms, as I have read in the Spanish translation on which I’m currently working. She didn’t run into him this time. He did that impulsively in order to console her and help her overcome her guilt over Anthony’s death. That embrace and his words about his own guilt made her realize that he, too, had felt the same with her all these years. That made her own burden lighter. She cried in his arms, probably for quite a while (since she ruined his shirt with her tears) and in that way all the pain she had kept inside her found its way out and relieved her. All of these factors (the crying, Albert’s tender embrace, his own guilt over Anthony’s death) helped Candy overcome this burden, and that’s why she said later in her letter that she felt like something inside her had been revived. I believe that Terry had helped her accept Anthony’s death and realize that she was alive and had to go on living, but he hadn’t been able to help her overcome her guilt too. Albert did that and that was what healed Candy completely. So she was able to speak to Anthony for the first time since his death in that mental letter to him. She was free of any sense of guilt to weigh her down and her heart was light again, ready to love again and find happiness. In this letter it seems clearly that she has found it. That was one of the most beautiful and romantic scenes of the whole novel, and I’m sorry that it was not given to us in a narrative style. Knowing how Mizuki writes, I can easily imagine what a masterpiece that scene would be.

    By the way, I have just sent you the next chapter of my translation. You can update any time you like.

    • Ms Puddle says:

      Thank you Fay for another chapter! 💖 I’ll update my page after this. 🙂

      Yes, the pretty bluebells are small but numerous. They tend to grow close to one another in the shade, the blueish violet flowers contrasting the green leaves. It’s just amazing. Thank God I live very close to a small forest, so I happen to walk by that sunny day. 😊😎

      In CCFS, the bluebells were not the only flowers, but there were wild roses too. Based on Candy’s descriptions, it must be a heavenly place! 💕 Mizuki chose such an enchanting forest for their long embrace for a reason. Not only the surroundings were romantic, their healing embrace touched deep into each other’s hearts, just as you have described. You were so right about how Terry helped Candy accept the reality but she wasn’t mentally recovered until after this visit to the forest with Albert. I’ll talk more in my next post, so please stay tuned. 😘

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