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1. Did you like the younger
Alice best? Or did you relate more to the older Alice?
2. What would your younger self of ten years ago think of the person you
are today?
3. What would surprise your younger self most about the life you're
currently leading? What would disappoint you?
4. What would you think of your children? Are they how you imagined they
would be? Are you the parent you envisioned? Why or why not?
5. Alice is shocked by many transformations—her gym-toned body, her
clothes, her house. Are you more or less polished than you were a decade
ago? And do you think there's any deeper significance to such change?
6. Do you think it was realistic that Alice ended up back with Nick?
Were you happy with that ending? Do you think they would have ended up
together if she hadn't lost her memory?
7. In order for Nick to be successful at his job, was it inevitable that
he would spend less time with his family and thereby grow apart from
Alice?
8. How did you feel about the sections written from the perspectives of
Elisabeth and Frannie? Did they add to your enjoyment of the book, or
would you have preferred to have it written entirely from Alice's point
of view?
9. Do you think it was unavoidable that Elisabeth and Alice had grown
apart, because of the tension caused by Elisabeth's infertility versus
Alice's growing family? Or do you think their rift had more to do with
the kind of people both of them had become?
10. It's not only Alice who changed over the last decade. Elisabeth
changed, too. Do you think she would have been so accepting of the new
Alice at the end if she herself didn't get pregnant?
11. Out of all the characters in the book, who do you think had changed
the most over the past decade and why?
12. The film rights to the book have been sold to Fox 2000—who do you
think would be good in the lead roles?
13. If you were to write a letter to your future self to be opened in
ten years, what would you say?
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