"Valentine" by Tessa Hadley is a story initially published in the magazine "The New Yorker" and it was included in the collection "The O Henry Prize Stories 2014".
The story is about adolescent love. The author showed the strength of love and disappointment. The main character, a fifteen year-old girl, is naive. She’s discovering new feelings, something she doesn't know.
The love of Stella and her coeval Valentine was described from the perspective of Stella. She recollected the memories of her past. She was a maximalist in her judgements and actions.
For the majority of the story the reader followed the twists and turns of their young love. Only in the end, after Stella compared her fate with her past ordinary life, she started to understand what happened. The final scene was almost as surprising to the reader as it was to Stella.
Here is a link to the story:
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