At her christening, Alice was cursed by her thirteenth aunt to never grow old, but rather to be extinguished like a candle on her eighteenth birthday. Alice's relatives try to undo the curse while Alice grows up oblivious to the problem. At her eighteenth birthday ball, something horrible happens to Alice, causing her to stop talking to anyone. She does write in her diary, where she describes longing for the return of her true love, her fears about leaving school, descriptions of the roses growi...