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On a June day， a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn t intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.The time is the 1950s， when life was simpler， people still believed in dreams， and family was， very nearly， everything. The place is a small midwestern town with a high school and a downtown， a skating pond and a movie house. And on a tree-lined street in the heartland of America， an extraordinary set of events begins to unfold. And gradually what seems serendipitous is tinged with purpose. A happy home is shattered by a child s senseless death. A loving marriage starts to unravel. And a stranger arrives a young woman who will touch many lives before she moves on. She and a young man will meet and fall in love. Their love， so innocent and full of hope， helps to restore a family s dreams. And all of their lives will be changed forever by the precious gift she leaves them.The Gift， Danielle Steel s thirty-third best-selling work， is a magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. It reveals a relationship so moving it will take your breath away. And it tells a haunting and beautiful truth about the unpredictability and the wonder of life.
