Star Love Stories in Pictures #629
"Once Upon a Dream" in Star Love Stories in Pictures #629 (1976) tells the tender, bittersweet story of Meg, a young woman still healing from her mother’s tragic death in a plane crash, and her complicated feelings for Steven, whose father was involved in the accident. With emotional depth and quiet longing, the tale unfolds as Meg grapples with her father Andrew’s overprotectiveness, her own growing heart, and the chance encounter that reignites everything at the International Flying Club Convention in New York. Illustrated with delicate precision by Juan Alonso Villanueva and featuring a dreamlike cover by Giovanni Tedesco, this heartfelt story captures a moment of fragile hope and memory.
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Andrew had been overprotective of his daughter since her mother died in a flying accident when she was a baby. When Meg sees Steven, Andrew forbids her to see him again because his father was flying the plane that had crashed with her mother. Meg defies her father and tells Steven that she loves him, but he tells her that it is just an infatuation. Sara, Andrew's business associate and Meg's friend, talks Andrew into letting Meg stay with her in New York. Meg tries to forget Steven until the International Flying Club Convention comes to New York and she sees him again.
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