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conversations.value: a title for a book about Times, `An, Magazine with the genre: Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Petals on the Wind'
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conversations.value: Petals on the Wind (film): Ten years after escaping from Foxworth Hall, the surviving Dollanganger children - Cathy, Chris, and Carrie - attend the funeral of their adoptive father, Paul Sheffield, who provided them a good home and the means to achieve their dreams after having nowhere to go.\nStill traumatized by their grandmother\'s abuse and their mother\'s betrayal, which led to the death of Carrie\'s twin, Cory, Cathy can\'t understand how a mother could do such a thing to her own children.\nMeanwhile, their grandmother, Olivia, is an invalid due to having suffered a stroke and constantly shouts out to the servants that Corrine poisoned her children, but no one believes her.\nCorrine has avoided all contact with her children and begins to renovate Foxworth Hall so she can take full ownership of the mansion.\nDuring the past decade, Cathy has become an aspiring ballet dancer, Chris is in medical school, and Carrie is enrolled in an elite high school, but is constantly bullied for her small size.\nCathy meets Julian Marquet, a fellow dancer, and finds herself attracted to him.\nOn their first date, he invites her to go to New York with him to try for a leading role in Romeo and Juliet, which she accepts.\nLater that night, Cathy and Chris admit that they still have feelings for each other and give into their passion, making love.\nHowever, Cathy insists they must find others to love and live normal lives, comparing their relationship to that of their family.\nThe conversation reveals that Cathy was pregnant with Chris\' child, conceived from their first sexual encounter while they were imprisoned, but miscarried.\nAlthough Chris says he can never love anyone but her, Cathy leaves for New York with Julian the next day with hopes of starting a new and fresh life with him.\nChris soon meets Sarah Reeves, the daughter of his boss at the hospital where he works, and they begin a relationship.\nCathy\'s relationship with Julian quickly deteriorates as he shows a dark and abusive side and, when she attempts to leave, threatening to kill her and Chris if she tries to walk out on him.\nHe even drops her during ballet try-outs and injures her leg, ruining her chance of getting her desired role.\nShe manages to sneak away to see Chris graduate from medical school, but denies anything is wrong when he sees her black eye.\nShe later returns to Julian after he shows regret for having abused her and helps Cathy get the role of Juliet by putting glass in the original dancer\'s shoes.\nCarrie asks Cathy if she can stay with her and Julian to escape from the relentless bullying at school, and Cathy agrees.\nDuring the play, Chris catches Julian touching Carrie and a violent confrontation occurs, which ends with Julian storming off in his car and Cathy chasing after him.\nWhilst driving erratically, Cathy reveals she is pregnant with his child, which distracts him enough to cause him to have an accident.\nThis leaves Julian dead and Cathy injured, but alive.\nTen months later, after the birth of her son, Jory, Cathy opens her own ballet school.\nCarrie meets and falls in love with a local minister named Alex, who quickly proposes to her.\nHowever, Carrie is unsure about being a minister\'s wife due to her memories of how their grandmother called all ministers evil, but Cathy tells her to forget the past and look towards the future.\nCarrie encounters Corrine at a charity gathering and invites her to her wedding, but Corrine denies Carrie as her daughter.\nThe next morning, Cathy and Chris find that Carrie consumed poison-laced doughnuts (the same technique that was used to kill her twin) and committed suicide.\nEnraged, Cathy vows to get revenge on their murdering mother, despite Chris warily trying to talk her out of it.\nShe hires her stepfather Bart Winslow as her attorney, in disguise of reviving the Sheffield estate, with the intent on seducing him.\nBart is instantly attracted to her and they begin an affair.\nPressured by his boss, Chris proposes to Sarah and she accepts.\nHowever, the day before the wedding, Chris admits to Cathy that he doesn\'t want to marry Sarah because he still loves her.\nCathy tells him that, while she still does love him, she wants him to move on with his life as their relationship can\'t lead to anything.\nDespite this, the two irresistibly end up sharing a passionate kiss, which Sarah accidentally walks in on.\nHorrified, she ends her engagement with Chris, who is fired from his job as rumors of the incestuous relationship spreads.\nWith nothing left to stay for, Chris asks Cathy to come start a new life with him in California, where no one will know them, along with her son Jory.\nHowever, Cathy reveals that she is pregnant with Bart\'s child and intends to finish what she started.\nChris decides to go with her to finally confront their mother and they sneak into Foxworth Hall on the day of her mother\'s Christmas party.\nAfter arriving, Cathy encounters her grandmother and confronts her about her religious hypocrisy and her unjustified abuse towards her and her siblings.\nUndeterred by her words, Olivia tells her that while she can abandon the family she will nevertheless forever be "the devil\'s spawn".\nDuring the party, Cathy reveals her identity as Corrine\'s daughter and her mother\'s crimes to the stunned guests.\nDespite Corrine\'s denial about knowing Cathy, Bart is suspicious and Olivia refuses to defend her.\nPressured by Olivia who has her own issues with her daughter, Corrine finally admits to everything, but insists she never intended to kill Cory or have them put in the attic, defending her actions that her father would have rejected her and left her out of his will.\nCathy then publicly reveals her pregnancy caused by Bart, leaving everyone in further agape jawed shock and her mother horrified.\nAfter confronting Corrine, Bart demands for Cathy to explain why she seduced him, was it merely to get back at his wife.\nShe replies that while she cares about him, she has done this for reasons he could never understand.\nCorrine blames Olivia for forcing her to put the children in the attic, and Olivia says the children are abominations and didn\'t deserve to be born.\nShe gives Corrine a trunk of her old possessions, and Corrine is saddened to find the skeletal remains of her son Cory.\nChris walks in as Corrine has a mental breakdown, she mistakes Chris for his father, her deceased husband, and pleads with him to hide Cory\'s body and run away.\nIn her madness, she sets the bed and her mother on fire.\nBart rushes in to save Olivia, but they both die in flames.\nAfter they escape the burning mansion, Cathy and Chris watch Foxworth Hall burn to the ground.\nSix years later, Cathy and Chris are now married and happily living in California with Jory and Bart Jr, under the surname Dollanganger.\nCorrine is deemed incompetent to stand trial for her crimes and is living in a mental hospital, where she constantly shouts out for her children.
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conversations.value: \nCorrine is deemed incompetent to stand trial for her crimes and is living in a mental hospital, where she constantly shouts out for her children.\nStill traumatized by their grandmother\'s abuse and their mother\'s betrayal, which led to the death of Carrie\'s twin, Cory, Cathy can\'t understand how a mother could do such a thing to her own children.\nMeanwhile, their grandmother, Olivia, is an invalid due to having suffered a stroke and constantly shouts out to the servants that Corrine poisoned her children, but no one believes her.\nCorrine has avoided all contact with her children and begins to renovate Foxworth Hall so she can take full ownership of the mansion.\nDuring the past decade, Cathy has become an aspiring ballet dancer, Chris is in medical school, and Carrie is enrolled in an elite high school, but is constantly bullied for her small size.\nCathy meets Julian Marquet, a fellow dancer, and finds herself attracted to him.\nOn their first date, he invites her to go to New York with him to try for a leading role in Romeo and Juliet, which she accepts.\nLater that night, Cathy and Chris admit that they still have feelings for each other and give into their passion, making love.\nHowever, Cathy insists they must find others to love and live normal lives, comparing their relationship to that of their family.\nThe conversation reveals that Cathy was pregnant with Chris\' child, conceived from their first sexual encounter while they were imprisoned, but miscarried.\nAlthough Chris says he can never love anyone but her, Cathy leaves for New York with Julian the next day with hopes of starting a new and fresh life with him.\nChris soon meets Sarah Reeves, the daughter of his boss at the hospital where he works, and they begin a relationship.\nCathy\'s relationship with Julian quickly deteriorates as he shows a dark and abusive side and, when she attempts to leave, threatening to kill her and Chris if she tries to walk out on him.\nHe even drops her during ballet try-outs and injures her leg, ruining her chance of getting her desired role.\nShe manages to sneak away to see Chris graduate from medical school, but denies anything is wrong when he sees her black eye.\nShe later returns to Julian after he shows regret for having abused her and helps Cathy get the role of Juliet by putting glass in the original dancer\'s shoes.\nCarrie asks Cathy if she can stay with her and Julian to escape from the relentless bullying at school, and Cathy agrees.\nDuring the play, Chris catches Julian touching Carrie and a violent confrontation occurs, which ends with Julian storming off in his car and Cathy chasing after him.\nWhilst driving erratically, Cathy reveals she is pregnant with his child, which distracts him enough to cause him to have an accident.\nThis leaves Julian dead and Cathy injured, but alive.\nTen months later, after the birth of her son, Jory, Cathy opens her own ballet school.\nCarrie meets and falls in love with a local minister named Alex, who quickly proposes to her.\nHowever, Carrie is unsure about being a minister\'s wife due to her memories of how their grandmother called all ministers evil, but Cathy tells her to forget the past and look towards the future.\nCarrie encounters Corrine at a charity gathering and invites her to her wedding, but Corrine denies Carrie as her daughter.\nThe next morning, Cathy and Chris find that Carrie consumed poison-laced doughnuts (the same technique that was used to kill her twin) and committed suicide.\nEnraged, Cathy vows to get revenge on their murdering mother, despite Chris warily trying to talk her out of it.\nShe hires her stepfather Bart Winslow as her attorney, in disguise of reviving the Sheffield estate, with the intent on seducing him.\nBart is instantly attracted to her and they begin an affair.\nPressured by his boss, Chris proposes to Sarah and she accepts.\nHowever, the day before the wedding, Chris admits to Cathy that he doesn\'t want to marry Sarah because he still loves her.\nCathy tells him that, while she still does love him, she wants him to move on with his life as their relationship can\'t lead to anything.\nDespite this, the two irresistibly end up sharing a passionate kiss, which Sarah accidentally walks in on.\nHorrified, she ends her engagement with Chris, who is fired from his job as rumors of the incestuous relationship spreads.\nWith nothing left to stay for, Chris asks Cathy to come start a new life with him in California, where no one will know them, along with her son Jory.\nHowever, Cathy reveals that she is pregnant with Bart\'s child and intends to finish what she started.\nChris decides to go with her to finally confront their mother and they sneak into Foxworth Hall on the day of her mother\'s Christmas party.\nAfter arriving, Cathy encounters her grandmother and confronts her about her religious hypocrisy and her unjustified abuse towards her and her siblings.\nUndeterred by her words, Olivia tells her that while she can abandon the family she will nevertheless forever be "the devil\'s spawn".\nDuring the party, Cathy reveals her identity as Corrine\'s daughter and her mother\'s crimes to the stunned guests.\nDespite Corrine\'s denial about knowing Cathy, Bart is suspicious and Olivia refuses to defend her.\nPressured by Olivia who has her own issues with her daughter, Corrine finally admits to everything, but insists she never intended to kill Cory or have them put in the attic, defending her actions that her father would have rejected her and left her out of his will.\nCathy then publicly reveals her pregnancy caused by Bart, leaving everyone in further agape jawed shock and her mother horrified.\nAfter confronting Corrine, Bart demands for Cathy to explain why she seduced him, was it merely to get back at his wife.\nShe replies that while she cares about him, she has done this for reasons he could never understand.\nCorrine blames Olivia for forcing her to put the children in the attic, and Olivia says the children are abominations and didn\'t deserve to be born.\nShe gives Corrine a trunk of her old possessions, and Corrine is saddened to find the skeletal remains of her son Cory.\nChris walks in as Corrine has a mental breakdown, she mistakes Chris for his father, her deceased husband, and pleads with him to hide Cory\'s body and run away.\nIn her madness, she sets the bed and her mother on fire.\nBart rushes in to save Olivia, but they both die in flames.\nAfter they escape the burning mansion, Cathy and Chris watch Foxworth Hall burn to the ground.\nSix years later, Cathy and Chris are now married and happily living in California with Jory and Bart Jr, under the surname Dollanganger.Petals on the Wind (film): Ten years after escaping from Foxworth Hall, the surviving Dollanganger children - Cathy, Chris, and Carrie - attend the funeral of their adoptive father, Paul Sheffield, who provided them a good home and the means to achieve their dreams after having nowhere to go.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Petals on the Wind
  Tearing my thoughts from her, I glanced around at the thousands of relatives crowded into the huge auditorium. When I looked back at the stage I saw Chris up there, ready to step behind the podium. I don't know how he managed to find me, but somehow he did. Our gazes met and locked, and across all the heads of those who sat between us, we met in silent communication and shared an overwhelming jubilation! We'd done it! Both of us! Reached our goals; become what we'd set out to be when we were children. It wouldn't have mattered at all about those years and months we'd lost--if Cory hadn't died, if our mother hadn't betrayed us, if Carrie had gained the height that should have been hers, and would have been if Momma had found another solution. Maybe I wasn't a prima ballerina yet--but I would be one day, and Chris would be the finest doctor alive.
  Watching Chris, I believed we shared the same thoughts. I saw him swinging a bat when he was ten to smash a ball over the fence, and then he'd run like mad to touch all bases in the quickest possible time, when he could have walked and made his home run. But that wasn't his way, to make it look too easy. I saw him racing on his bike yards ahead of me, then slowing down deliberately so I could catch up and we'd both reach home at the same time. I saw him in the locked room, in his bed three feet from mine, smiling encouragingly. I saw him again in the attic shadows, almost hidden in the immense space, looking so lost and bewildered as he turned away from the mother he loved... to me. Vicariously we'd shared so many romances while lying on a dirty old mattress in the attic while the rain pelted down and separated us from all humanity. Was that what did it? Was that why he couldn't see any girl but me? How sad for him, for me.
  The university planned a huge luncheon celebration, and at our table Carrie babbled away, but Chris and I could only stare at each other, each of us trying to find the right words to say.
  Then Chris frowned and asked why Julian hadn't come. "He wanted to come, Chris, really he did," I lied. "But he has obligations that keep him so busy he couldn't spare the time. He asked me to give you his congratulations. We do have very tight schedules. Actually, I can only stay two days. We're going to do a TV production of Giselle next month.
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conversations.value: I watched the smoke; it circled and came directly to me, wreathed about my head and neck. "Look," I said, struggling to regain my control, "you know my husband died. I was expecting his child and I was inundated with bills I couldn't pay, and even after the insurance paid off, with some assistance from you, still I'm going under. My dance school is in the red. I have a child to support, and I need things for him, to save for his college education, and your wife has so many millions. I thought she could part with just one."
  His smile was faint, cynical. He blew smoke rings to make me dodge and cough again. "Why would an intelligent woman like you presume to think my wife would be so generous as to turn over one dime to a relative she doesn't even claim?"
  He drummed his strong fingertips on the tablecloth, looking deeply reflective. Next he had a cigarette lit again, not as if he truly enjoyed smoking, but more as if he had to have something to keep his restless fingers busy. He inhaled deeply, then looked me straight in the eyes. "I'm going to speak very frankly to you, Catherine Dahl. First, I don't know if you are lying or telling the truth, but you do look like a member of the Foxworth clan. Second, I don't like you trying to blackmail my wife. Third, I don't like to see her unhappy, so much so that she cries. Fourth, I happen to be very much in love with her, though there are times, I admit, I'd like to choke the past from her throat. She never speaks of it; she is full of secrets my ears will never hear. And one great big secret I've never heard before is that Malcolm Neal Foxworth, the good, pious, saintly gentleman, had a love affair after he had heart trouble. Now before his heart trouble, I happen to know he had at least one, possibly, but no more."
  Bart Winslow glanced about the cafe. Families were coming in to dine early, and I suppose he feared someone might recognize him and report back to his wife, my mother.
  Twilight came like a quickly dropped shade to the mountains--suddenly it was evening--and we'd been hours in that cafe. We were on the sidewalk when he held my cardigan sweater for my arms to fill the sleeves, though the air was so brisk I needed a jacket or coat.
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conversations.value: But... I am not like her! I may look like her, but inside I am honorable! I am stronger, more determined. The best in me will win out in the end. I know it will. It has to sometimes... doesn't it?
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