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Reese meets Tom merely by chance while she's in Hawaii for her brother's wedding, and they strike up a conversation, bonding over their love for running, past relationships, and (in Reese's case, lack of) movie experience. Aspiring screenwriter meets 'aspired' actor.
He's charming and kind, and altogether a lovely new friend -- but that's all he is, and all, Reese decides, he will ever be; so when she's called back to her quiet hometown in Oregon to tend to her sick father, her unfortunate past is only one step behind, and so is Tom.
A not-as-young-as-he-used-to-be actor, constantly traveling, constantly busy, has enough in his life to keep him one hundred percent occupied until the day he dies.
A twenty-nine-year-old woman, just beginning to figure out what she wants to do with her life, completely 'not looking for a relationship right now, thank you very much'.
Probably incompatible... but not impossible.
3,600 miles, 12 different states, all in five weeks. And all with a stranger. All I wanted was to get away. It had taken me a year to raise enough money for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I didn't want to waste one second. But I never expected that I would meet Tom- the fun, kind, light-hearted traveler. A man was something I certainly didn't want in my life at that moment, but this particular man managed to burrow his way into my life, and decided that traveling as two was better than traveling alone. What Tom didn't tell me, though, was that he wasn't just the handsome traveler he had led me to believe. He was Tom Hiddleston; the incredibly charismatic, famous actor. And that... That changed everything.
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