A Story About Love

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In Ray Bradbury’s “A Story About Love”, a young man in his 30’s, Bill Forrester takes up the acquaintance of an elderly woman, Helen Loomis who is in her 90’s. They meet in an ice cream shop and Bill tells Helen that he was in love with her once. She doesn’t know what this means. Helen invites Bill to join her the next day. Bill goes to Helen’s on a daily basis and she tells him stories about far away places that she has traveled to. In their minds, they are able to “travel” to these places together. Bill eventually tells Helen what he meant when he said that he was in love with her once. He had seen her picture in the newspaper and thought she was pretty. He was going to attend a ball that she was at but found out that the picture was many years old and she was actually an older woman. T...

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