She takes a seat on The varsity bus and finds herself next to Park — peaceful, understated, and impossibly neat. Very carefully but wholeheartedly, about late night time phone calls and countless mix tapes, Eleanor and Park drop in love. It’s that pure, concern-laced, heartbreaking type

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