![]() ![]() They laugh it off and spend Amanda and Leo’s birthday together, watching the two bond and even take their first steps together. It turns out that both families have been booked into the same birthday room at the Magic Castle Birthday Party Palace by mistake. Ten years before the present time, on Amanda and Leo’s first birthday, both the Ellerbys and Fitpatricks are astonished to find themselves together again by pure chance. Even though they had promised, both the Ellerbys and the Fitzpatricks walked away believing they would never see each other again. She predicts that they will be the best of friends and makes them promise they will celebrate this day together every year before rushing off again. While an “uneasy feeling, like they were remembering something out of a storybook someone read to them when they were children”(Mass 3), runs through them, Angelina takes this moment to tell them that “being born on the same day is very special”(Mass 3). The Ellerbys exclaim that they are naming their daughter after her great-grandmother, Amanda Ellerby. Both parents to the babies appear next to her and they exchange stories about each one and they tell the Ellerbys that they are naming their son Leonard Fitzpatrick, after his great-grandfather. ![]() She spots the two little babies she ultimately came to see she has waited a long time for this day to arrive. The novel begins 11 years before the present time Angelina D’Angelo rushes through the halls of the Birthing Center stopping right in front of the nursery window to look at the newborn babies in the room. ![]()
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