this a story of boy named John Luke Mattews and how his one love Claire Taylor Blythes was slowly dying of an unknown illness and she is slipping out of his fingertips. He feels as though he is dying along with her but the realization of how much he loves her hits him and makes him see that he can't die with her because then her sprit and memory won't live on without him. He is her sprit. He is the reason she is alive. She may die but, their love and memory will live on as long as him.