A orillas del río Piedras me senté y lloré by Paulo Coelho

This story is about Pilar. She is a college student who was bored with college life and the routine. Pilar decides to start a journey from Spain to go to the Lourdes' Sanctuary in France. At the beggining of her journey, she is reunited with an old childhood friend.  

He is a seminarian now, and in the moment when they look back to the eyes, a love born, burning in passion. But now, it is in a different way. At the end of the trip, they should take a very important decision: choosing a common path. The story continous when Pilar, sitting on the banks of the rives and in her desperation, tells her life sinse she meets this man. They are known when they were children and really good friends. Later, he leaves town with his parents, wanting to know the world.Pilar instead stay in the city until she finished the high school  and then she travels to another city to being college. Dispite the distance, they keeped in touch by letters. One day, Pilar gets a letter from her friend, which invited her to a conference in Madrid. She was really surprised by the invitation, but she was stunned, because the letters said that he was a seminarian, too. When they are together again, their hidden feelings start to fight to get out. But bouth are very afraid to get them out. He has the gift of healing,  and his feelings for Pilar do doubt his election to the priesthood. Regarding to Pilar, she has suffered so much in her life and fears to being rejected by her friend. Pilar cofesses that she loves his friend and now, she is wating for his answer. But before she knew the answer, she goes into the mountains, Pilar scaped from an answer that probably it wasn’t what she espected. She almost died frozen, but a nun helping her to recover and she advised her to write her sadness on a paper and then thrown it into the river. When Pilar goes to the river to throw her story, her friend comes and tells her that he loves her. Besides, he wants a life with her.

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