But maybe, the love's end was not a "real end". It ended the Joaquin's love, but it became the Tao Chi"en's love. Eliza and Tao had always felt attraction for each other, but they did not want to realize this. This is the reality. They had traveled together, they had slept together they were engrossed in their first love. They did not accept to love other people as they had loved to Joaquin and Lin. Tao loved Eliza, but at first he thought that loved to Eliza as a brother love to his sister. Tao discover the truth when he contacted his wife Lin: "I am a ghost. I cannot visit you your whole lifetime. It is very difficult to come when you call me. Marry, or you will be an old man before your time". In this moment, Tao realized how much he needed Eliza, he discovered that Lin, since she died, had always been an illusion, that she did not exist. .
Eliza felt the same sensation as Tao. She loved him, but she was caught by her first and illusory love Joaquin. But this changed one day. She saw that maybe her lover would not appear . She seemed to accept Tao's agreement: "Eliza, if you do not find to Joaquin in one year, marry with me". She did not answer rapidly, but in her mind, she said yes.
We can see here, that self-discovery, transient and illusory, are joined in one . Illusory because when the love between them was born, they discovered that her lovers had been illusory, that Lin and Joaquin were not perfect. Self-discovery because in their life together they got to know themselves. They got to know themselves because they realized that they were able to love other people. Transient because they saw that love can have a beginning and end, not very often love is eternal. Readers of Daughter of fortune experiment the sad reality: love can end. .
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Love is a journey of self-discovery. This is true for Eliza because she got to know herself better in the search for Joaquin. She belonged to a good family in Chile.