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Chapter 4
Renascence
Clare 37
- Clare takes time to go into her studio and she begins to make a drawing of herself and that it resembles who she is, and that it ill always be around long after she dies.

Chapter 5
Always Again
Henry 43 Clare 82
- Henry is in a dark hallway of a house that he does not recognize, he sees an old women sitting in a chair by a window, then he realizes that it is Clare. When Clare sees him she walks into his arms.
Clare 82
- Clare does her normal routine of waiting by the window, she does not know when Henry will be coming, but she does not care. As long as she waits he will come.

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Chapter 3
Dasein
Clare 37
- Clare has to go to Gomez's house to pick up Alba, while she waits for her to get back her and Gomez talk and Gomez tells her there is not point of waiting until Henry sees you next that she should just move on.
- Gomez starts to kiss her she imagines that it is Henry and they have sex, and Alba and Charisse almost walk in on them, Clare feels ashamed.
Clare 37
-Clare and Charisse go out to eat and Clare lets Charisse know that Alba has seen Henry but Clare can not. Charisse feels bad and worries how that makes Clare feel.
Henry 27
- After partying with Ingrid the begin to look for their car, and that is when Ingrid notices a little girl and she tells Henry, she asks her if she is lost, but the little girl says she is fine. She tells her that she is looking for her dad, and shows them where the car is Henry does not realize that it is his daughter.
Henry 42
- Henry and Alba play in the sand at the beach, people stare because they are dressed funny and look like a strange father daughter relationship. Alba asks Henry why he never visit mommy, he simply says he would but he can't.

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Part 3
Chapter 1
A Treatise on Longing
Henry 43 Clare 35
- Henry falls to the ground just after Marks rifle is fired, he calls for Clare, and all of a sudden he is laying in the middle of the living room, with Clare and Alba over top of him. The part lays frozen around him, and Gomez calls the police.

Chapter 2
Dissolution
Clare 35
- Clare is lonely and spends her days sleeping, Kimy is taking care of Alba, Clare even finds it hard to look at her daughter because it reminds her to much of Henry.
- Clare finally goes into the desk to get the letter that Henry has left her, and it tells her that he will always love her but not to wait around for him all the time to go out and live her life. He lets her know that she sees her in the future when she is older but this should not stop her for moving on.

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Chapter 28
Hours, If Not Days
Henry 43 Clare 35
- It is his mothers 37th anniversary of her death and knows that a slight memory can bring that accident all back. He begins to wonder how Clare will do after Henry is dead, and wonders if she will be fine without her.
- The next morning Henry watches Clare make breakfast for Alba, and he sees the perfection of the mother daughter together that he longs to stay and live with them.

Chapter 29
New Years Eve Two
Clare 35 Henry 43
- It is News Eve and Henry and Clare are throwing a party. They will be surronded by family and close friends, but tonight is the day that Henry will die.
- Henry sits on the porch for some air and Gomez follows to see what is up, Henry thanks Gomez for everything he has done and for being a good friend, Gomez knows that their is something wrong and Henry informs him that his life will be done soon.
- Clare begins to look for Henry and finds him on the porch, Ben lets her know that he looks depressed and told him that he loved him.
- As Clare goes on the porch Henry tells her that it is time, and they just hold each other tight waiting, Henry is scared, and Clare kisses him, it is New Years back inside but ti is only Clare and Henry on the porch.

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Chapter 26
Feet Dreams
Henry 43
- Henry begins to have nightmares about having no feet, and he starts to dream of crazy things like being displayed in a museum.
Clare 35 Henry 43
- Henry begins to teach Clare to cook because he knows that she will have to learn too cook when he is not there anymore. And she makes her first meal and Henry and Alba both approve.
Chapter 27
Henry 43
- Henry wakes up and realizes he is not at home he is in Ingrid's apartment, she is not pleased to see him, Henry realizes that today is the day that she kills her self, so he tries to beg her not to do anything and to take care of herself.
- But Ingrid is still upset about everything that has happen between them and can not forgive Henry. She asks about his family and he tells her that he is married and has a daughter. When she asks about her future Henry does not know what to say. She becomes curious and guesses that she will die, then she pulls a gun on Henry and then places it on her temple, she asks Henry if he loved her, and he says yes, she does not believe him and she shoots herself in front of him.
Clare 35 Henry 43
- Clare wakes up in an empty bed and worries but she finds Henry in the living room crying, He tells her that Ingrid died. He thinks it is his fault but Clare tells him that there was nothing that he could do. Alba wakes up from the noise so Henry plays with her to keep his mind off of it. Henry informs Clare that all important documents and his will are in the desk organized. Clare is worried because she knows that Henry knows the exact date of his death.

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Chapter 24
The Episode of the Monroe Street Parking Garage
Henry 43
- Henry is laying freezing in the snow near the parking garage, while he is there he can not feel his feet, and he calls his other self to come and get him because it is freezing outside, he curls into a ball out in front of the guard station but no one comes to get him.

Chapter 25
Fragments
Clare 35 Henry 43

- Clare waits for Henry to return home and when he does he is freezing cold and white. Clare is scared so she rushes him into the ER hoping that everything will be okay, but both of Henry's legs have to be amputated above the ankles. They do the surgery and he is unaware of this.
- Henry wakes up and screams out of horror because he has no legs.
Clare 35 Henry 43
- Henry has been home form the hospital for a week now but he refuses to do anything but to lie around and gloom about what has happened.

- He will not respond to her or even Alba, Clare feels although Henry is there he has disappeared and Alba asks if he is going to die and Henry tells her not yet.
Clare 35 Henry 43
- alone in Clare 's studio she remembers a quote that Henry always says about angles, so she decides to sculpt wings for him.
- Kim comes over and demands that Henry get out of bed and have a shower she has no sympathy for him and demands that he does what she says. His mood is becoming to get better by each day.
- The next day Clare shows Henry the giant wings hanging from the ceiling and he is taken back by their beauty.

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Chapter 23
An Unpleasant Scene
Henry 43 and 43
- Henry ends up in the library and is locked in he now has to wait until someone finds him and hope that they do not ask to many questions. Lucky enough the two body guards find him and help him, bring him clothes and a coffee.
-As the other Henry goes upstairs knowing that the other on is down locked in the cage he has to get help to get out of the cage. He shows some of his workers both of him and they are in shock.
He compares it to being superman and that Clare is Lois Lane which is Clare.
Henry 43
- Henry visits Dr. Kendrick and is told that he will not be able to cure him. That his immune system is not strong enough, and his disorder is to strong.
- He asks if Alba has a chance of being cured he is told that she might have one but Clare will not allow it.
Clare 35 Henry 43
- Clare spends the day in the studio waiting for Henry and Alba to come home from shopping and when she sees Alba she has a band aid on her arm and know that he took her to s

ee Dr. Kendrick she is angry but Henry explains that this is the best way to help their daughter have the closet life to normal.
Henry 43 Clare 13
- Henry begins to member when he died, and know that he will be in the meadow during hunting season, Clare will be young and sleeping in her house, when her father and brother are out hunting and spot something move, Mark will shoot the gun and the shot will hit Henry, Henry will call out Clare's name and she will wake.
- Clare will hear him and come running for him, in the end there will only be a bloody spot on the grass, she will see another Henry and wave to him although the other is out their dying somewhere

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Chapter 21
The Episode of the Monroe Parking Garage
Clare 34 Henry 42
- Henry gets a phone call on a cold winter from the other Henry who is stranded in a parking garage, and when Clare and Henry rush over to help him he is no where to be found.
Chapter 22
Clare 35
- It is almost Henry's birthday and Clare gets a recording of Henry's mother signing opera.
Henry 43 Clare 35
- It is Henry's birthday and he wakes up early to make breakfast and get a clean shave and shower before they all go out later for his birthday.
- Clare, Henry and Alba go with Gomez and Charisse and their kids to the zoo.
- After the zoo Clare and Henry go out for a dinner arranged by her friends and they have a quite dinner together, she put his song on and he is so happy, he wished that he could fezzes time and always stay with his family.

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Chapter 20
Secret
Henry 41 Clare 33
- Clare spends lots of time in her studio working on different projects waiting for Henry to return from when the last time that she saw him.
- While she waited for him to return it was a constant routine where she goes out into town hoping that she will run into Henry. Clare even describes this time as the best moment in her life that she found out that she really missed him and enjoyed trying to find him everyday.
- Clare admits to going out with a bunch of guys but nothing serious and that she grew tired of them, she slept with Gomez in that time and is scared to tell Henry.
- Clare thinks that it will ruin their relationship but Henry insures her that they get through the bad and good times and that everything will be alright.
- She finally tells Henry that she slept with Gomez and he forgives her.
Clare is 18
- Clare begins to remember the night that she slept with Gomez and how guilty she felt. She even had nightmares and through her sleep she would keep apologizing to Henry.
- Gomez does not believe that there is a Henry and that Clare is making up a random guy because she feels bad.
- Clare tells Gomez that this can't happen again and that it is not right she leaves.
Henry 26
- Henry is out with Ingrid and they run into a huge a guy who tells him “Clare says Hello” But Henry does not know a Clare and that he is confusing him with another person.
- Gomez becomes happy tat Henry is with another women and thinks it will benefit him to get Clare.
Henry 41 Clare 33

- Henry takes Charisse to the Opera because Clare is not the biggest fan of it, while they are out Charisse tells Henry that Gomez is in love with Clare and is worried that he will leave her to be with Clare.
-Henry insures her that he will not leave.
Henry 41 Clare 34
- Alba meets her 7 year old self when he is 4 and Clare and Henry watch them as they play. As the two are playing the 7 year old Alba tells the 4 year old Alba that Henry will die when she is 5. She gets upset and runs to Henry.
- Henry tells Alba that she can not tell Clare, This makes Clare wonder what the crying and why Alba was up set.
-Clare questions Henry and the fear of the memory of seeing him in the meadow with her father when she was younger and being sent away comes back, it worries her because when she went to go look for him later their was a pile of blood on the grass, She hugs Henry worried.

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Chapter 19
Birthday
Henry 41 Clare 18
- its Clare's 18th birthday. They lay out a picnic and have some food. Henry lets Clare know that they will not meet for a while, and it makes Clare upset.
- And Henry knows that they talked about having sex on her birthday when she was 18. But not sure if Clare still wants to.
- They make love and after Clare is faced with the harsh reality that she wont see Henry for years.
- He explains that when they meet next he will not know her so she will have to be patient. And then he is gone.

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Chapter 18
Nature Morte
Clare 23 Henry 41
- Henry is on the kitchen floor crusted in blood bruised, Clare knows he has been beaten but does not want to wake him eat she finally wakes him and he starts to sob.
- They sit together in silence.
Clare 33 Henry 41
- It is the night before Christmas eve. Clare and Henry took Alba to the mall to see Santa and Clare runs into Dr. Kendrick.
- Dr Kendrick wants to do tests on Alba but Clare does not want anything done to he till she is 18 and she can make the decision on her own.

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Chapter 16
Secret
Clare 32 Henry 40
- Clare explains how it is nice that Henry is gone sometimes because it gives her time to her self to think and relax, but she is always glad when he comes back home.

Chapter 17
Experiencing Technical Difficulties
Henry 40 Clare 32
- Clare is opening a art studio, and she is exhausted from getting it all ready for its opening.
- Henry is taking care of Alba and he becomes weak so he sets her down Alba only wants Clare but Henry cant move and then hes gone. Clare gos and get Alba and asks where daddy is and is told hes left.

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Chapter 15
Birthday
Henry 38 Clare 30
- Clare is begging to have contractions and they call Gomez and Charisse to come get them to go to the hospital, Clare is worried hat Henry will leave.
- Clare is in allot of pain and Henry does not know what to do he feels bad that he has done this to her.
- She is ready to give birth when she is being rushed down the hall Henry disappears but is back in time right before the bay begins to crown. She delivers Alba and is glad Henry could be there.
- They sit in the room with Alba in their arms they are a real family surrounded by flowers and teddy bears and balloons.
- Henry 's dad comes in and holds Alba he smiles and make Henry happy. His dad agrees to teach her how to play the violin.
Clare 30 Henry 38
- They are at home with Alba and Clare is still in some pain form the birth.
- They are tired and just sit around watching TV and next they see a plan fly into the second tower, and it goes up into flames.
Clare 31
- is sitting at home with Alba when she decides to draw a picture of Alba Sleeping so she will always have this drawing knowing that she loved her so much.

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Chapter 14

Alba, An Introduction.

Clare 40 Henry 38

- Henry ends up at the museum and sees Alba who calls her mom to let her know to hurry to get to the museum to see Henry.

- Henry and Alba talk about whats going on and find out that Alba can time travel but she is able to control where she wants to go.
- Henry feels bad that he passed on this gene to his daughter but is happy that they can spend this time together, he finds out that he died when Alba was 5 just like his mother did when he was 5.
- Clare pulls up in a car and tries to run to Henry but he gets I love you out and hes gone.
Clare 30 Henry 38
- Clare is home alone waiting for Henry, she is worried that she will go into labour without him their.
- She pictures a baby eating Thai food with her with little chopsticks. She goes back home and fumbles for her keys Henry swings the door open and is relieved.
- Henry explains how he visited Alba and saw their daughter he explained what she looked like.

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Chapter 13
Seven
Henry 33 and 37 Clare 29
- Henry sees Clare and the other Henry sleeping he watches for a while till walking over to Clare where she opens her eyes and he kisses her he know that she will soon realize that their is another Henry but he does not care he penetrates her and Clare sees the other, but she accepts it and in that moment Henry loves her more then life.
Henry 37 Clare 29
- Clare finds out that she is pregnant with the seventh and that she is scared, Henry thinks that they could have an abortion but knows it is against her beliefs. They both decide to try to think positive and move on.
Clare 29 Henry 37
- Clare is throwing up and Henry asks if he should be worried but Clare is told that it is a sign that body recognizes the baby is there. She looks in the mirror and she is pink and puffy and she is not glowing like pregnant women should but she knows shes pregnant ans thats all that counts.
Henry 37 Clare 29
- They go to the doctors office for and ultrasound, its a girl and she is sucking her thumb Clare and Henry both feel relief.
Clare 30 Henry 38
- The baby is due in 2 weeks and their has been no name picked out.
- They buy a baby name book and go through the whoel book, they come to the name Alba.

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Chapter 12
Baby Dreams
Clare 29
-Clare begins to have allot of dreams about babies, walking with her mom and a child, having a baby wrapped in saran wrap, and he vision of blood coming from her.
Clare 29 Henry 37
-Clare feels empty she is told the heartbeat is there and the baby is fine but she can not feel it, she becomes frustrated and goes to her studio. All she can imagine is red blood so she draws a heart a small heart. It calms her and she feels better.
Clare 29
- Clare wakes up in a pile of blood and see this tiny boy all she hopes is that it will stay long enough so Henry can see it but its gone and she wakes up in the Hospital, the baby is dead.

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Chapter 11
Six
Clare 29 Henry 36
- Clare watches Henry unpack the groceries and in amazement she sees a pack of condoms. Henry tells Clare that five pregnancies is to many and that he can not do it anymore.
Henry 36 Clare 15
- Henry decides to go get a vasectomy but becomes very nervous and right before hes about to go in he disappears to the meadow.
- He tries to avoid Clare but she wants a explanation of why he not talking to her. He does not want to argue with her and kisses her Clare is upset that their first kiss happens like that and Henry feels worse so he kisses her again with passion and feels bad for the way he treated her.
Clare 29 Henry 36
- Clare saw the note that henry was going for a vasectomy and tells Henry she knows. She lets Henry know that its alright that he can get it and that she is done with going through all this over again. That night they make love, and four weeks later he gets the Vasectomy, and they find out Clare is pregnant for the sixth time.

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Chapter 10
Five
Clare 28 Henry 39
- Henry sees Clare looking through a window of a baby clothes store and she has a looking of longing.
- Clare has had five miscarriages by this time and looks tired. Clare says she has given up she is tired of going through the same pain over and over again.
-Henry then tells her to hang in their in the future we have baby, all Clare says is “Thank-you”

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Chapter 9
Four

Clare 28 Henry 36
- Henry begins thinking that maybe they both should adopt a baby, thats way the baby will be healthy and Clare will be. But Clare sees it as being fake.
- Clare begins to go on about all that she is hiding and how she feels, telling Henry she is sick of pretending and pretending like she doesn't care that he leaves, Henry gets up angry and grabs the keys and walks out the door.
- He drives to the pier and stands on the end of it thinking all of what has happen how he is sick of death and scared of what will all happen. So stressed Henry disappears.
- He is under Kimy's table and Henry tells her there is no baby yet and that he does not want to talk about it. Kimy then tells him of her child that she had but died a very young age.

-Clare goes to the pier and sees tones of cops surrounding the water, they think that he jumped off the pier, but Clare knows that he did not. Henry finally is back and explains a lie to the cops and they head home Clare and Henry apologize and drive home in silence.
Clare 28 Henry 36
- The mouses have successfully begun to time travel, and they figured out that it was hard at first because the mothers and babies kept dieing but they found a way to stop the bleeding and the dieing, Clare thinks its a way to help her carry a baby.

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Chapter 8
Three
Clare 27 Henry 35
- Charisse and Gomez have had their third child, and it has been a week before Clare and Henry go over to give them gifts and food.
- As Clare holds the baby in her arms it give Henry the reality of all of their miscarriages that they have been having. Henry feels nauseas and is scared he will time travelling. He is asked to hold the baby and he feels even worse he gets up and leaves outside to get some air.
- Gomez offers some advice as they sit outside but Henry is not all that open to talking about it.

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Chapter 7
New Year's Eve, One
Henry 36 Clare 28
- Clare and Henry are celebrating New years eve on the rooftop of Wicker Park. They are amongst Clare's Artist friends and Gomez and Charisse.
- The count down comes and Clare and Henry are lost in each other arms. Henry hopes in that moment that better things are to come in the new year.

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Chapter 6
Intermezzo
Clare 27
- Clare is spending time with her mother who has been in and out of the hospital, she watches her mother suffer and fade to nothing.
- Her mother is battling Overing Cancer and as Clare sits and watches her mother in her room she glances out the window to view the life around her when the room falls silent. Clare realizes that her mothers heart is not going and her mother lays their motionless, Clare sees her mother as perfect, beautiful and reminds her of her old self her shinning and laughing memories runs through Clare's head.

Clare 27 Henry 35
- Henry remembers all that Lucille was, he remembers visiting and seeing the beautiful garden that she would make each year. He runs through each memory he had every time they would visit and how she acted in the type of state she was in.
- Henry then explains how he misses her but it is not like how Clare does, he describes her walking into rooms and forgetting what she was doing, she can sit and stare at a book without turning the page for an hour.
- Clare does not cry and laughs when henry makes a joke and goes along with making love but its is Henry that has gone and that henry feels alone that hes left with a stranger that only looks like Clare.

Henry 35 Clare 27
- Clare wants to open her mothers desk but can not and so she asks Henry for help and with time travelling he has had to break into allot of places so uses a paper clip to open the desk. Where she finds a poem her mother wrote for Clare.
- She shows Henry and she is amazed that her mother wrote her a poem it makes her realize that her mother did love her even if she did not show it all the time, she begins to cry and Henry knows he has the old Clare back.

Book Notes

Chapter 5
Two

Henry 34 Clare 26
- Clare wakes up covered in blood she had miscarried again.

The imagery in this paragraph is so vivid when it describes Clare waking up in all the blood.

“ She sits up. Her hands, her face, her hair are drenched in blood. Clare holds out her hand and on it reclines a tiny monster. She says simply, “He died,” and bursts into tears. We sit together on the edge of the blood soaked bed, holding each other, and crying.”

Clare 26 Henry 34

- Henry gets a call letting him know that Kendrick has found a cure that might stop time travelling, but he is going to test it on mice and see if it cures them.
- Clare becomes excited but know that its life and death and that Henry could die if the cure goes wrong.

There is tens of millions to more than
100 million animals used annually in lab testing.

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Chapter 4
One
Clare 25
- Henry disappears and leaves Clare home alone while she is 8 weeks pregnant. She begins to feel a tug and pain inside her and she begins to worry.
-She calls Charisse to come pick her up and take her to the hospital.
- She finds out that she has miscarried the baby.
- While Clare is in the hospital Henry finds the note saying she is in the hospital and he arrives shortly after.
Henry 32
- Henry is going to a sleep lab to test for his disorder. It is his filth time going and he is having these extreme dreams about Clare, himself and Ingrid.
- The dreams are showing his emotions vividly and the doctors are able to get all of it down.

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 Chapter 3
A Very Small Shoe
Clare 24 Henry 32
- Clare begins to dream often about children and kids.
- Clare begins to think that a baby is the only way to keep Clare and Henry close and that it will fill the emptiness that she feels when Henry is gone.
- Clare and Henry both want a child but it worries Henry more that the child will be born with the same condition that Henry has and that the child will be affected greatly by this.
- Henry does not want to put such a huge thing onto their own son or daughter. And that the child will leave Clare to if it is born with the same disorder which may leave Clare even more lonely.

Book Notes

The Time Traveler's Wife Movie:
Henry at the age of 6. 

Chapter 2
Library Science Fiction
Henry 31
- Henry is hiding behind a pile of books while he is getting dressed when his boss runs into him, but not surprised, and knows that this behaviour has been happening for a while and promise to not fire him and that he will put up with his time travel because he is a good librarian.
Henry 8 Clare 24
- Clare decides to go visit Mrs. Kim and that is when she sees 8 year old Henry for a quick moment, Mrs. Kim becomes curious and begins to ask if they are thinking of having any kids. It gets Clare thinking of the possibilities and later when Henry is home she tells him “Let’s make a baby” (2.2.71)
Henry 32
- Henry goes to meet his new doctor and explains that he can time travel the doctor does not believe Henry so Henry shows him that he can by giving him a letter that his unborn son will have down syndrome.
Henry 32 Clare 24
- The doctor calls him and confirms that his son does have the disease he still does not believe him till he watched Henry disappear then he agrees to help him. Henry tells the doctor his whole life story he is sent to a seep lab to monitor and figure out what Henry is.

Book Notes

The Time Traveler's Wife Movie:
 Clare and Henry's house.

Part 2
Chapter 1
Married life
Clare is 22, Henry is 30
- Henry and Clare move into a two-bedroom flat together. It takes a little bit but they begin to fall into a daily routine. It is not soon after they begin to realize the annoying habits of each other, but know they must make compromises to make a marriage work.
- Clare is having a hard time adjusting especially when she feels she has nowhere to do any of her artwork, and the continuous disappearing of Henry is frustrating her.
- Henry is beginning to worry that Clare is getting upset and not handling the time traveling good since when he is back she seems to be shutting him out.
- Henry brings home an old T.V and lets Clare know he has a program that he wants her to watch it is the lottery and she then discoveries she just won 8 million dollars because Henry knew what the numbers where.
- Clare feels this is almost like cheating and that she cannot accept the money because it would be the wrong thing to do. But when Henry lights a match to the winning ticket Clare changes her mind.
- They decide to use the money for a house first and begin house shopping but Clare feels like Henry does not like any of the houses cause he knows what one they already live in she decides she will go out on her own and see if she can find their perfect house that Henry sees in the future. She finally finds the house she loves and it is the same one in the future.
Henry 31 Clare 23

The Time Traveler's Wife Movie:
 Gomez and Charisse are over to visit their new house.

- They just finished moving into their new house and then they make love in their new home.
- they visit Gomez and Henry sees that Gomez is looking at Clare in a different way letting him know that Gomez also cares for Clare the same way Henry does.
Henry 31 and 39 Clare 23
- a night of games with Gomez and Charisse they hear a crash and it is Henry who has fallen into the wooden glass cabinet.

Book Notes

Chapter 14
Get Me To The Chapel On Time
Henry 30 Clare 22
- It is the wedding day and Clare is able to escape for a while to go and visit Henry so they can spend some time together before they get married they make love and then she hurries home to get ready.
- Henry begins to worry that he will disappear and leave Clare alone at the alter. But there is two of him on 38 and the other 30
- They get married and She marries the the 38 year old Henry and everything is fine until the speeches where going to happen Henry travels but Henry lets Gomez know where his younger self is and bring him to the wedding.
- The wedding day goes fine and Clare is happy that she is able to spend it with Henry 30 year old version.

From the movie
The Time Traveler's Wife.
 Henry and CLare's wedding day.

Book Notes

Chapter 12
Better Living Through Chemistry 
Clare 22 Henry 30

- Henry and Clare begin to talk about the wedding, and trying to figure out a way to make sure that Henry is not going to time travel during the wedding.
- Clare is worried about Henry taking any kind of drug to control his travelling.
- Henry is always amazed that Clare never sees his travelling as a disease and never complains. He thanks her for loving him for him.
Henry 30
- Goes to Ben's house his personal doctor, he asks him to make this certain drug that will maybe keep him fro travelling so he can stay fro the wedding.
Clare 22 Henry 30
- Clare goes home and finds Henry on the floor almost passed out because he is having a reaction to the drugs Ben has given him. She calls and ambulance and then calls Ben who becomes really worried.
- Ben meets Clare at the hospital and is relieved that he did not dies and feels so bad that he gave him the drugs. Clare asks Ben to not give him any more drugs and he agrees.

Book Notes

From the movie The Time Travelers Wife, Henry is

getting ready to ask Clare to marry him.

Chapter 11
Birthday
Clare 21 Henry 28
- Clare's 21st birthday they have dinner and Clare begins to worry if it is natural that they have sex so often.
- The night comes to an end and Henry brings out the ice cream and sings to her as they are relaxing on the couch Henry asks Clare to marry him. Clare says yes.
- Henry and Clare head to Henry's dads place to tell him the exciting news.
- Kimy and Henry's father loves Clare and is really happy for them both.

 



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Chapter 10
Home is Where you Hang your Head
Henry 28
- goes to his dads and finds out that he is unable to play the violin anymore and that he is not paying the bills.

- Ms Kim feels bad for his father and is trying to keep in cleaned and make sure he is fed.

- His is drinking allot more and is even sadder the usually.

- Henry went over to his fathers house to ask for his moms engagement ring to give to Clare.

- Henry tells his father that he still sees his mother sometimes when he time travels, his father is relieved and brings his wifes ring.

Book Notes

Chapter 9
Christmas Eve Three
Clare 20 Henry 28
- Henry is going to Clare's parents house for the first time to meet her parents.
- They learn of Henry's moms singer and her father and mother have actually seen her in concern and her mother remembers seeing henry once running around as a small boy.
- Henry learns of the engaged between Clare's Brother and his girlfriend Sharron and that they are only engaged because she is pregnant and that would be against their religion if they did not get married.
- Clare tells Henry of her mothers illness and why she is so crazy
-Her father over hears her and gets up set that she is sharing such personal stuff.
- They all go to mass and Henry gets nervous and travels for a while leaving Clare alone for her parents wondering where he is
- He sneaks into Clare's room they have sex and in the morning he gets up to go to the bathroom and Alice opens the door to Henry peeing. He quickly hides under the bed
- On the way back home Henry realizes Clare is crying he has never seen her cry, he gets her to pull over and she explains that she hopes her family is not embarrassing and that she is sorry about her mom. Henry lets her know that he had a great time and loves her family.

Book Notes

Chapter 8
Eaten Or Be Eaten
Henry 28 Clare 20
- Henry goes to Clare's apartment for the first time for dinner, he will be meeting her roommate Chairisse and her boyfriend Gomez.
-Henry cooks dinner because Clare has no clue how to cook
- They all begin to drink and she gets to drunk she can barley stand.
Henry 36
- Henry meets Gomez in an alley after he jumped a guy for his money and his clothes. He tells Gomez that he is a time traveller.

Henry 28 ,33 Clare 20
- Henry and Clare go to a club to go dancing
- Henry runs into his ex girlfriend Ingrid who is up set that he never came back or called or anything.
- Clare learns about Henry's many girls he has been with and how he plays every girl
- Henry explains what he has done and that he was stupid but he is done now that he has Clare in his life.

Book Notes

Chapter 6
Christmas Eve, One (Always Crashing In The Same Care)
Henry 40 Clare 17
- Its Christmas eve and the 19th anniversary of Henry’s mother’s death
- he begins to think about his childhood
- Clare joins him in the basement and wishes him a merry Christmas
- Clare asks about the accident and Henry explains what happened that his mother was hit with a piece of steal and it was the second time that he ever time traveled
- makes Christmas sad for him but he is happy to be with Clare.

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Chapter 7:
Christmas Eve Two
Henry 25
- He has nowhere to go for Christmas Eve so he goes to a bar and drinks way to much
- He ends up in a hospital  for drinking too much and has to get his stomach pumped
Clare 17 Henry 40
- She has been waiting 2 months for him to come she decides to take her grandma for a walk into the meadow
- She is blind so she cannot see Henry but she is the first to meet him from her family.
- She is very worried for her granddaughter, concerned she will always be waiting for him, Clare tells her grandma she will marry him, and have children but her grandma says they will always be popping in out of your life Clare sees it as exciting but her grandma does not.
(she makes a connection to peter pan)

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Chapter 5:
After The End
Clare 13 Henry 43
- Clare finds Henry in the meadow with her father and her brother getting ready to go hunting, she is
confused and Henry lets her know that its fine and her father sends her back into the house.
Clare 15 Henry 43
- Henry and her are in the basement and Henry is asking about her weight saying she is really thin and

he is not use to because in the future she is really plump right now (could be foreshadowing that she is pregnant in the future)

- tells Clare her mom dies of ovarian cancer
Clare 16 Henry 32
- Clare gets her licence it is also the first time that her and Henry kiss
- She decides to go to a party an leave Henry in the car to wait for her.
- Everyone is drinking and smoking and people are skinny dipping
- Her friend goes to her car to meet Henry and asks if they are dating, Henry says he loves Clare.
Henry 32 Clare 16

-Clare goes on a date with a jock and does not agree to have sex with him so he burns his chest and touches her.
- Clare wants to get him back she asks Henry to help her they tie him to a tree in his boxers and Henry is so mad at the guy he punches him before they leave.
Clare 24 Henry 32
- He wakes up and kisses Clare’s cigarette burn scare, which is the last time he mentions them.
Clare 17 Henry 36
- Clare draws a picture of Henry laying in the Meadow and she writes the date on the front, but in the future it does not have the date so Henry is wondering what this will do.
Clare 28 Henry 36
- Henry is scared of the date she wrote and that it changed something he checks the picture and it does not have a date. Clare tells him she was freaked out that day that she trimmed it off when he left.