Part 41
I think I am definitely the latter kind of person, enjoying the most ordinary and tiniest details of life, and then striving to write them down.
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No matter how I say it, it sounds like I’m making excuses for my own slowness…
Hmm, let’s get back on topic and continue talking about "Ian Mitchell".
The inspiration for "Ian Mitchell" began one day when I went to the supermarket with my mom. The supermarket was crowded and packed, and suddenly the opening scene of Ian Mitchell popped into my mind.
A man and a woman who once loved and parted, unexpectedly meeting again in a crowd many years later—their eyes meet, they gaze at each other quietly, and then each walks away.
At the beginning, I just wanted to write about such a fleeting encounter in "Ian Mitchell". Then, gradually, the story became richer, even the characters developed their own tempers and were no longer under my control.
A friend once asked me, in this book, what do you want to express?
Actually, when I was writing, I simply wanted to tell a story, nothing more. But since she asked so seriously, I thought about it seriously too—what do I really want to express?
I think the answer is this:
There are countless beautiful love poems in the world, but the happiest must be this one—“To hold your hand and grow old with you.”
What "Ian Mitchell & Mason Scott" wants to express is exactly this kind of happiness.
Mandy Cooper
Early morning, December 14, 2005
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