Why does one person fall in love with another person? Is it because of the little dent in the rounded elbow? Or is it because of the flash of light in his eyes? When you fall in love with a woman, is it possible that you are actually falling in love with a completely different woman? A woman who existed earlier and in some way laid the background for the emergence of this woman now?

——"Margaret's Town"

The giggling child Mei, the melancholy girl Mia, the sad young man Maggie, and the surly middle-aged Ma Qi, the old lady Margaret who can read minds. They are the same person, but they are not the same person.

The protagonist of this book is technically Maggie.

A magical town with the same name as the protagonist (margarettown), where five Margaret Townes live. Externally, Maggie said it was her eccentric group of aunts and cousins. The only way to reach the town of Margaret is to try your best to get lost.

Margaret said: "Sometimes in the middle of the night, everything feels unbearable, doesn't it? In the middle of the night, we all become helpless children."

The male protagonist said: "To a certain extent, the people you meet in a place define the meaning of that place to you."

One is a weird female student who skipped classes until she was about to fail. , one is a philosophy teaching assistant who lives in a basement. They are all gradually literary and idealistic, so the first encounter between the hero and heroine is almost love at first sight.

Margaret’s Town is a magical place with echoes. Old Margaret said: "The echo is a good companion. Whenever I feel lonely, I always want to find someone to talk to. The echo is much better than the mirror. The mirror will say bad things about you. The echo is very cooperative with you. They I feel that everything you say is a wise saying.”

After reading the entire book, think back and realize that echo should be a metaphor. Five Margarets eating at the same table was like "holding an auction in a room full of echoes."

A normal woman's aging leaves no trace; Margaret will leave a living person in a few years. Maggie is unwilling to go with the frightened N unless she is sure that N will fall in love with herself from the age of 8 to 77.

In countless dreams and waking up, I have been faced with the terrifying face of the one-eyed Maggie in her fifties, and she has no determination to fight off the hero N’s love for Maggie. Our hero even enjoys everything that goes with a proposal: buying a ring, getting down on one knee, and asking the question. He didn't expect to enjoy these things, but he did. He loved the ritual of courtship and felt as though he were taking part in some grand tradition of brave and foolish people. When making the decision, except for Maggie, the other Margarets were just as the curse originally said, if you meet true love, there will only be one Margaret you love.

This reminds me of a famous fairy tale.

A king was captured, and the other queen asked him to answer a very difficult question. If he answered it, he would be free. The question is: "What does a woman really want?"

The king began to ask for answers from everyone around him: knights, warriors, priests, wise men, wizards... As a result, no one could satisfy the queen. of. Someone told the king that there lived an old witch in a gloomy castle on the outskirts. It was said that she knew everything, but had bizarre requests. The deadline was approaching and the king had no choice but to find the witch. The witch agreed to answer his question, but only if she married the king's most noble Knight of the Round Table.

The witch is hunchbacked, ugly, has only one tooth, and smells as bad as a sewer, while the knight is tall, handsome, honest and kind. After the knight knew the news, he said to the king: "I am willing to marry her, for you and our country."

So the marriage was made public, and the witch abided by the agreement and answered this question: "What a woman really wants is to be in charge of her own destiny." Everyone knew that the witch had spoken a great truth, and the king was free.

At the wedding, the witch ate with her hands, burped, and said dirty words, which made everyone feel sick, but the knight remained as humble as ever.

On his wedding night, the knight insisted on walking into the new house despite everyone's dissuasion, ready to face everything. However, a peerless beauty he had never seen before was lying on his bed. The witch said: "In one day, I am half an ugly witch and half an alluring beauty. My dear Jarvan, which side do you want me to be during the day or at night?..."

This is such a cruel question,

The knight replied: "Since you said that what women really want is to control their own destiny, then it is up to you to decide!" After hearing this, the witch finally burst into tears: "I choose to be a beautiful woman day and night because I love you!"

However, marriage is not the end of all happiness. Just like what was said in the book when they left Margaret Town: "Every place likes to try to please you when you first arrive, but when you leave, it is inevitable that it will be deserted. Sometimes when you leave a place, you even They don't even know that they have left... The trees that once bore fruit no longer bear fruit, and the trees that never bore fruit now bear fruit.

…After that summer, for some reason I came back here, and it was never the same as it was that summer. It was so different. ”

N said: “There are tens of thousands of Margarets in the world, and thousands of Margarets may be the bride today, but I am very glad that it is you and not someone else.” . ”

However, if you think this is soulmate, you are wrong. They have experienced a huge crisis.

Margaret opened a store specializing in architectural relics A married male shopkeeper next door who specializes in rare books and short-lived collectibles frequently showed his affection to her. After discovering that they might be from the same hometown, they helped each other, ate together, gave each other gifts, opened fortune cookies, and helped her chase them. The thief, especially the male shop owner, gave her an antique electronic sign that read "Margaret Town Cinema". The male shop owner also gave her a unique name "Meg", but her husband just made it up as an afterthought. A gift of twenty-four tulips.

For a moment, everything about Margaret's troubles became clear.

You think the story is over. However, the book is only halfway through. Margaret and N also met many people in their lives, and their first love was just that for Margaret. It is a very competent tree hole.

The author even wrote about the "whispering" of a pair of twins in Margaret's belly, the little boy named "Ian". I felt so sad when I missed this world because my lungs didn't grow well.

Margaret's clone also had a Greta who committed suicide due to depression, so Margaret also tried to cut her. Wrist, and ran away from home for three years.

In married life, there are always hidden things that you don’t know about. For example, Margaret’s red hair is not natural. It takes half an hour. And many mornings since the honeymoon, young Maggie will become Maggie in her fifties. N said: "Sometimes, we see some clues, but deliberately choose to ignore them. . He would also keep the scene of dyeing his hair "deep in his heart and never touch it." ”

In fact, as N’s sister Beth said, each of us is a small town. There are dozens of ourselves living in everyone’s heart. Beth said that she is also called Elizabeth, Lizzie, Liesel, and Izay, these are not just differences in names, they represent different times of themselves, such as toddler, girl, confidence, and cowardice.

Maybe it’s Margaret. She was really tired of her multi-faceted self, so she named her daughter "Jian" because the name "Jian" really didn't have any nicknames or abbreviations. It is every mother's wish for her daughter to be a simple and pure person.

In the second half, Jane, who has lost her parents, begins her own life. She will also think of her twin brother Ian who did not develop well in her mother's belly, and even the name of her first boyfriend in her life. That's it. Her husband's name is "Jian Ke", which is also the same word in English. Everyone he will meet in the future is really inextricably linked to his own life.

I have an innate affinity for names. For example, I like the name "Margarita" very much, so I liked this book title because the best and most successful dessert I make is "Margarita". "Special Biscuit", and the only cocktail she loves is "Margarita".

When Jane got married, it was the second ceremony in the church, and when Margaret got married, it was the first ceremony in the church. Coincidentally They all discovered that the brides in the first and second weddings wore exactly the same dress and looked very similar. I even thought that the church might be a time shuttle.

Maybe, this is just the same. A book with a simple plot that is full of imagination, but it doesn't stop me from loving it.

Let me end with a sentence from my favorite book --- "Time is barren, and we try our best to survive." Everything I have experienced is for this moment on the steps of my home. ”

Yes, every time I hold the key and walk in front of my home, my inner satisfaction is so full that it overflows.

Let love and dreams be with us go home.

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