Valentine's Day, 1996. I bring Roma to the Oprah Winfrey Show to honor her on national television. I want to tell her in front of the millions of the people what I feel in my heart every day: "Darling, you fed me in the concentration camp when I was hungry. And I am still hungry, for something I will never get enough of: I am only hungry for your love." 去书内

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    This excerpt concludes the love story of the narrator and Roma, spanning decades from the concentration camp to their reunion. After being separated during the war, the narrator proposes to Roma, who accepts with the same twinkling eyes she had as a girl tossing apples over the fence. Almost forty years pass, and the narrator frames their reconnection as destiny fulfilling the hope sparked by their wartime bond. On Valentine’s Day 1996, he brings Roma to The Oprah Winfrey Show, publicly declaring his enduring love: Roma fed his physical hunger in the camp, and now he remains "hungry for your love"—a metaphor for his endless emotional longing for her. The passage ties the camp’s small acts of kindness to a lifelong love, emphasizing love’s power to endure trauma and time, and framing their relationship as a destiny-driven fulfillment of hope.

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