That Crap is for the Birds

I have lots of random connections to the romance romeo novelist Nicholas Sparks.

When I was 14, The Notebook came out and my boyfriend at the time took me to see it for our first date. Like everyone else who saw that movie, the whole "If you're a bird, I'm a bird." became "our thing." I remember when I had my wisdom teeth out, he borrowed money from his mom to buy me a pair of Roos, those shoes with the zipper pocket on the side. The shoes didn't fit, so I exchanged them. He told me later he had written "our quote" on a piece of paper and stuck it in the pocket. I still laugh when I think about whoever ended up with those shoes and them finding that piece of paper.

I also have some very special friends who live in the quaint town of New Bern, NC right down the street from Sparks, and they even drove me past his house once.

I'm also a fan of his lovey dovey stuff, so when I heard Sparks was speaking at the SHE Expo in Chattanooga, I thought it would be fun to go and get a book signed. Luckily, so did my friend Sarah, and thanks to the kindness of a friend of a friend, I had my nifty new scooter to help make the adventure easier.

I rolled right up to him on my decked out Hello Kitty scooter and got my book signed.

So what do I say to the man who can bring me to tears with words on a page and writes about the type of love women around the world swoon over? Well based on the picture the TFP snapped, my face said...

"I love your books, but I kind of think they're full of sh*t."

 (Photo cred. to TFP. Sorry, but I'm not paying $5 for this)

What I really said was, "I love your town, New Bern." They had warned us not to strike up conversations, so I tried to resist, but you can't just stand there awkwardly and say nothing. But I'm sure he will forever have ingrained in his mind, the vision of that girl in lovely, riverside Chattanooga on her scooter, and just knowing she had a Sparks worthy love story hidden deep inside. Okay, so now I'm full of it, but a gal can dream!

So there you have it. My meeting with Nicholas Sparks in true Kerri fashion.

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...” ― Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight

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