Linda

 Linda was the first love of O’Brien. He taught him the sense of feeling of love. We are all inclined to idealize our chosen person, to whom we’ve experienced a sense of love for the first time. And, over the time, people forget everything bad, and there are only positive moments in memory. She has taught the main character that all the things we feel when we love are beautiful and incomparable. Even if feelings are irreversible, love is still a pleasure to feel. Being in a state of love, we believe that there is no sense to live without love in this world.

She had poise and great dignity. Her eyes were deep brown like her hair, and she was slender and very quiet and fragile looking.

When they were in the fourth grade, O’Brien took her out on the first real date of his life—a double date, actually, with his mother and father. Boy’s mother had somehow arranged it with Linda's parents, and on that damp spring night, his dad did the driving, while Linda and I sat in the back seat and stared out different windows, both of them trying to pretend it was nothing special.

Linda had always been very slender and fragile-looking, almost skinny, the body in that casket was fat and swollen.

Linda was sick, maybe even dying, but the main character loved her and just couldn't accept it. In the middle of the summer,his mother tried to explain to him about brain tumors. Bad things start growing inside us. Sometimes you can cut them out and other times you can't, and for Linda, it was one of the times when you can't.