Letters to Juliet: "What If?"

Last weekend, I stumbled upon the movie Letters To Juliet. It's a story about Sophie who works as a fact checker on a publishing firm. One day Sophie took a vacation slash meet the suppliers to Italy with her fiancee, Victor. In Italy, Sophie found the secretaries of Juliet, a group of women who replies to women who writes to Juliet. The twist came when Sophie replied to a letter written 50 years ago by a woman who ran away from the love of her life. The woman is Claire and she is now way past her prime but the letter that Sophie wrote encouraged her to look for her long lost love. Eventually Claire found the man of her life and they got married and the letter that Sophie wrote was read after the wedding and it goes:

"What and if are two words as nonthreatening as words can be, 

but put them together side by side and they 

have the power to haunt you the rest of your life."

What if?....what if?...

"I don't know how your story ended.
But I know that if what you felt
then was love - true love - then
it's never too late. If it was true
then it why wouldn't it be true
now? You need only the courage to
follow your heart..."

"I don't know what a love like that
feels like... a love to leave loved
ones for, a love to cross oceans
for... but I'd like to believe if I
ever felt it. I'd have the courage
to seize it. I hope you had the
courage to seize it, Claire. And if
you didn't, I hope one day that you
will."