Sofia and Luke are the other couple. Sofia is a senior in college and Luke is a professional rodeo bull rider. Sofia has just come off a bad break up and certainly had not planned to meet someone new. Her roommate drags her along to a good old fashioned barn dance where she meets Luke. Their conversation is easy, they instantly connect. And, their romance begins. They fall in love. But they also have obstacles in their path. Luke doesn’t tell Sofia why he hasn’t been riding the last eighteen months and has just now returned to the arena. And how does a professional bull rider that lives on a ranch fit into the life of an art history major?

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Kit, Borys (March 17, 2014). "George Tillman Jr. in Final Talks to Direct 'Longest Ride' (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved December 16, 2017. Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, an image of his adored - and long dead - wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together: how they met, the dark days of World War II and it's unrelenting effects on their families. A few miles away, college student Sophia Danko's life is about to change when she meets the young, rugged Luke Collins and is thrown into a world far removed from her privileged school life. Sophia sees a tantalising future for herself, but Luke is keeping a secret that could destroy it all. — Indiabb95 After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.” For me, the only redeeming thing in this book was Ira’s character, his musings as he awaited his fate and the dramatic ending.

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Este libro esta narrado en dos líneas de tiempo, una por un hombre de noventa años que se encuentra accidentado en una carretera nevada aislada y otra por una estudiante de arte y un cowboy. There’s a lot of us out there looking for that perfect one who’ll salvage the vacuum that life has created in our hearts and souls. Sounds corny and somewhat unempowered, but most of us, through the blessing that is popular media, have been conditioned to believe that finding your soulmate is the final step to leading a happy life.

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A few miles away, at a local bull-riding event, a Wake Forest College senior’s life is about to change. Recovering from a recent break-up, Sophia Danko meets a young cowboy named Luke, who bears little resemblance to the privileged frat boys she has encountered at school. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which the stakes of survival and success, ruin and reward — even life and death – loom large in everyday life. As she and Luke fall in love, Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans — a future that Luke has the power to rewrite . . . if the secret he’s keeping doesn’t destroy it first. Chaplin is the “sole younger actor to pop here; playing theonly one of the youthful characters with any boldness or inclination to speak her own mind,” while Alda“makes the canned sentimentality of his 91-year-oldcharacter go down quite easily as he comments to Sophia about thevicissitudes of his life.” The film’s “settings and compositions are picture-postcard, the score syrupy,the bull-riding coverage not entirely convincing, the sentimentscliched and reassuring. But, boy oh boy, the ending! In Sparks’ world,when happiness rains, it pours.” The first story is of Ira Levinson, who is a ninety-one year old widower that has careened off a snowy embankment and is stranded waiting for help. As the hours and cold set in, the outlook is bleak and daunting. However, it’s during Ira’s most desperate moments that his wife Ruth that passed away nine years ago appears to him and together they reminisce about the life they shared together prior to her passing. Then we have Sophia Danko. Sophia is a college senior who is out with some girlfriends after a break up. There, she meets a cowboy named Luke. Luke is different from any man she’s ever met and she is drawn to him. They develop a relationship and Sophia starts spending all her free time with Luke at his family’s ranch. Luke is holding on to a secret. With his bull riding, comes risk. But for him, even more than the normal.Do you think it's probable that someone who's sitting on potentially millions (billions?) of dollars would give away the paintings of such worth to the person who bought a POS--albeit heartfelt--painting by a child, at an auction? It may be probably...as in, a 1 in 500 trillion chance. But guess what! That's exactly what happens in this book. Luke and Sophia's lives become richer because they inherit tons of paintings that are worth a ton, at the EXACT same time that Luke's family is losing the family ranch.