<P> Meanwhile, Taylor's ex-husband Henri - Michel comes to Newport on a book tour for his best - selling novel about their marriage . Feeling insecure about Taylor's exotic life in France, Ryan breaks up with her, claiming they are "too different". A week later, Ryan decides he was wrong but discovers it might be too late as Taylor is already considering a reconciliation with Henri, who still loves her . Ryan upstages a poetry reading by Henri at a book store with a poem of his own, where he confesses he can grow to love Taylor, given time . </P> <P> To make up for giving a pocket dictionary for her nineteenth birthday, Ryan gives Taylor his original present of a bound book full of love poems that she translated . He admits he loves her, but as they reconcile, an earthquake hits Newport . The two survive, but Ryan is injured while protecting Taylor and is brought to the hospital for recovery . Six months later, Ryan and Taylor spend time together before she leaves Newport for college in Paris . Ryan thanks her for saving him from self - destruction, and he and the Cohens depart from their Newport home, damaged beyond repair, to Sandy and Kirsten's old home in Berkeley, California, while Seth leaves for RISD . </P> <P> In a flashforward, Ryan attends UC Berkeley, where Sandy is now a law professor . At Seth and Summer's wedding, he is best man and shares a smile with Taylor, the maid of honor (their relationship status is left ambiguous). Ryan achieves his dream of becoming an architect . As he walks away from a construction site, he notices a teenager down on his luck, seemingly in the same situation Ryan was when he was kicked out of his home . As he offers the youth help, Ryan's story comes full circle . </P>

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