Candy’s last letter to Albert (Part 6)
This is the last page of the series Candy’s last letter to Albert. Merci beaucoup, Antlay! ❤❤ Here Candy wrote to Albert that she had the diary, which was mainly about Terry, right beside her, but it hadn’t been opened. That is, although she had brought it back to Pony’s Home from Lakewood, she hadn’t turned a page. Apparently, she remembered what she had written, but the fact that she didn’t touch it signifies her resolve not to go back to her past. Note that she sounded matter-of-fact, not at all sad or bitter about it, which is consistent with her tone in her unsent letter to Terry that I mentioned in Part 5.
The way Candy ended this letter indicates that she was indeed happy and content with Albert; she even thanked her parents for abandoning her at Pony’s Home so that she could meet him. Of course she meant she could meet her prince (on Pony’s Hill), not her “adoptive father” (since he had explicitly told her he disliked this fact, as discussed in Overwhelmed with emotions (Part 2))! What’s more, Candy had already moved back to Pony’s Home for a long time by then. Whether she was an adopted daughter or not no longer bothered her.
Overall, Candy wasn’t interested to revisit her “past” (diary) whatsoever, and there is absolutely no hint that she was hoping someone in New York would return to her one day. 😁 To reinforce the notion that she lived in “the present”, she wrote that “now is my happiness”. Put yourself in Albert’s shoes, how would you have reacted to Candy’s words? She wasn’t flirting, was she? That’s the reason why Candy predicted another sleepless night 😆 … This is in essence a love letter, not to mention that she ended this letter “with love and gratitude”. I’ve written about this in different posts already, but in short, the word love, 愛(ai), is not to be taken lightly and casually. It’s a word that conveys total commitment and deep devotion to another. Please bear in mind that the word 愛(ai) in Japanese culture is a very strong word, and many people would rather show their 愛(ai) by actions than say it out loud. Therefore, it took lots of courage for Candy to use it to end her letter to Albert. She must have felt his love for her, so it’s her declaration of love to him as well, no doubt about it. ❤❤❤❤
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Susanna and Candy (Part 2)
Expressions of love
A love declaration
The day her life changed (Part 6)
More than words (Part 1)
More than words (Part 2)
Her happiness
Well said, Quevivacandy and Ms Puddle!! It’s simply incoherent what this TF says about the diary and about Candy putting distance between herself and Albert?? What?? Did she miss everything?
First of all, this last letter in the epilogue is all about C&A communicating with each other constantly, longing and awaiting anxiously to see each other again!! Candy being excited and not being able to sleep over seeing Albert again soon! Her confession that her happiness is in the “now” or present with him! Albert asking her to not call him Father and calling her “beautiful”! Come on!!
About the diary, it is in Candy’s possession temporarily! She does not dwell in it nor even open it. She was not the one who asked for it and is even concerned about how he felt about it prior. Did this TF miss the part where she tells Albert that she is entrusting this diary back with him just as Albert entrusted his badge back with her? Is an act of trust and of sharing their most intimate emotions! Why would Candy not be able to sleep after she confesses to Albert that her happiness is in the “now” with him! Clearly someone in love who just confessed her love her man! ❤ ❤❤ ❤
Bravo, Evelyn dear! I had exactly the same doubts and thoughts… Did this TF miss all the obvious facts throughout the epilogue? That Candy and Albert were in love, missing each other a lot?
Totally agree with you that Candy had indeed brought the diary back home with her, and there must be a reason why she decided not to touch it again. Not only that, she didn’t just bury it somewhere or give it to a random person, but she deliberately told Albert that she hadn’t turned a page and decided to entrust it to him. Yes, Evelyn, it was an act of love and trust, and it was a symbolic notion that they would share with each other both their pasts and their future. It’s an exchange of love and commitment, no doubt.
Indeed, the fact that Candy predicted another sleepless night speaks volumes. She just confessed her love to her Prince on the Hill! 💞💕💓
Well there is only one huge mispelling… HAY… she tried to write AY, that means something like “oh my”. Hay, with H, means ‘There is’. But there are anothers, accents. In Spanish you have to put an accent on ‘él’ when you want to say ‘him’. If you don’t do it, sometimes even if you are a Spanish speaker, is a little confusing. But when you use a translator to translate a phrase to English, frequently the translator translates ‘el’ as ‘the’ instead of ‘him’, so the sentences is incomprehensible.
She also talked about the things inside of the jewerly box, about why she choose not to live in Chigado with Albert and about their new brilliant theory, thay Candy never recovered her trust in Albert, based on the letter to Stear. There she tells to Stear, after Albert asked her to share her happiness with him, that only Stear can understand her. PLOP…
I know you have more to say and so do I, LOL, but they never will understand.
Sorry, clicked the button to reply her original comment but I don’t know why my comment came as a new one… ¿? hehehe
grrrr… and the same thing happened again…
No worries, I’ll see if I can move your comment. 😉 if not, never mind 🙂
Muchas gracias, QuevivaCandy! 💕
I was going to tell this person that I don’t understand most of her comment. So it was because of wrong spellings? I see.
Anyway, here is my view to the theory that it was too painful for Candy to open her old diary:
(1) She wouldn’t have brought the diary back home. In Lakewood, she could tell Albert right away that it was too painful for her to even think about it.
(2) Yet, Candy said she was concerned about this diary. In her unsent letter to Terry, she wondered how Albert had felt while reading the diary. That is, she had suspicions that Albert had feelings for her.
(3) Candy was no longer affected by her past with Terry. She had moved on because she was undoubtedly very happy with Albert now. Why go back to someone who had given her up twice (once for his dream and once for another woman)?
I have more to say, but I think that’s enough for now. 🙂