Candy Candy is a manga that I used to love and read when I was young.. I never thought there was a postcard about it!
I was so lucky to swap it with Amandine, Anita and Tzu Feng Pang... Yes, I have 3 copies of this postcard..
The more the merrier.. lol :)
The
Candy Candy manga is a "slice of life story" in the shōjo
genre. Candy is an abandoned orphan taken in by the orphanage Pony's
Home near Lake Michigan around the start of the 20th century.
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She spends the first years of her life at the orphanage, where she will
often return to repose and decide her next course in life. Growing up
she gets adopted twice, first by the Leagans who treat her poorly, and
after that by a wealthy benefactor whom she does not meet until the end
of the story. But he is heir to an important estate, and a relation of
her first love Anthony and his cousins the Cornwell brothers.
After
Anthony dies, Candy gets an education in London where she meets the
rebellious Terry, her second and grand love (in the words of the author
Keiko Nagita/Kyoko Mizuki in the essays found on Misaki's website,
[4]
"the great love that cannot bear fruit"). Circumstances seem to
constantly divide the pair.
Upon her return to the US, she trains and
gains experience as a nurse in Chicago, around the time of WWI,
[3]
while Terry tries to become a Broadway actor. A member of his theatre
troup, Susannah, hopes to get between Candy and Terry.
Eventually both
have to make a decision to sacrifice their own happiness as a couple for
the sake of a third person. With the revelation of the identity of her
guardian, Candy also discovers who her childhood Prince of the Hill is.
