I "met" Sydney when I was a preteen. I'd watched the 1989 version of A Tale of Two Cities a couple years beforehand, but I re-watched it again. I'm guessing this was at the same time I was really interested in the French Revolution, and trying to read all the books / read all the internet articles / watch all the movies about the FR that I could. But A Tale of Two Cities quickly became much more than just "a book / movie about the FR". It became one of my favourite books ever. But first, I had to get a copy of the book. I'd read one of those abridged copies before, those picture-on-every-page ones, but they don't quite give you the Dickens feel. I knew we were going to London (we lived in England at that time) and visiting the British Library, so I bought a copy of A Tale in the gift shop. It took me about six months to read it, but it was most certainly worth it. I kept checking out the movie from the library and watching it over and over again. (Eventually my mom bought it for me. :)) Although my admiration of Sydney never faded, the obsession did. Until recently, when I read A Tale of Two Cities for school. I went slightly insane again. I also found out there was a musical of A Tale, which went right along with my latest obsession - musicals. (Well actually my latest-latest obsession is Josh Groban...but that's another story). So, even though I have a better control over my emotions now ;), I am still and hopefully always will be, a Sydney Carton fan.
So now it's YOUR turn. How did you meet Sydney? When did you fall in love?
(Btw I do understand that probably no one reads this blog and I highly doubt anyone will comment on it. But I'm just going to treat it like people are reading it. Because otherwise it feels lonely.)
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