Two months ago , I received an email from a boy who told me that his girlfriend was eager to retrieve one of my old novels , and he was naturally obligated to search everywhere for her it, but he could not find it .

IBut had never been published .

Once upon a time , we desperately tried to find something for the people we loved , but it was not anything valuable . But alas, it had borne no fruit, and finally we even returned disappointed .

Two months ago , I received an email from a boy who told me that his girlfriend was eager to retrieve one of my old novels , and he was naturally obligated to search everywhere for her , but he could not find it .

No need to put a space before punctuation, just one after.

The novel had been serialized in a magazine many years ago .

It had never been published .

Of course Therefore, he wcould never buy it .

Two months later , I received another E - e-mail from him .

No need to put any spaces around the hyphen (-), but on a related note, you do need to put spaces around dashes (–)

This time , he was very anxious to, saying that his girlfriend ' 's birthday was coming up and that he would love to give her the novel because she had said many times that she wanted to read it again .

No spaces around apostrophes (')

The passionate boy asked me :" , "If you have the file of the novel , can you give it to me ?"

We don't use colons (:) for short quotations/dialogue. Usually, we use a comma (,) but you might see other punctuation too, depending on how the sentence is structured.

I had written it by hand , and the manuscript was lost somewhere .

I don ' 't remember whether I had cut it out of my notebook or not , except that I wasn ' 't satisfied with it and it wasn ' 't published .

Not wanting to disappoint him , I suggested that he send his girlfriend the three e - -mails we had exchanged .

She would have been touched to know that he had tried so hard to find the novel for her , just because she had said that she would " love to read it again "."

Sometimes , the process is more important than the result .

I remember one night , many years ago , when I was still atin school , my cousin asked me anxiously about a particular kind of paper for his wife, but I was unable to help .

Once upon a time , we desperately tried to find something for the people we loved , but it was not anything valuable , and finally we even returned disappointed in the end.

But does the result matter ?

The searching process is already the best gift .

Two months ago , I received an email from a boy who told me that his girlfriend was eager to retrieve one of my old novels , and he was naturally obligated to search everywhere for her , but he could not find it .

The boy passionate boly asked me :" , "If you have the file of the novel , can you give it to me ?"

Once upon a time , we desperately tried to find something for the people we loved , but it was not anything valuable , and finally we even returned the end we were even left disappointed .

The process is already a gift

I think an English expression you could use instead is, "It's the thought that counts". In other words, the effort trying to produce the gift, is the gift itself.

Two months ago , I received an email from a boy who told me that his girlfriend was eager to retrieve one of my old novels , and he was naturally obligated to. He searched everywhere for her a copy, but he could not find it .

"(Naturally) obligated" sounds a bit strong in this context, because normally someone would be happy to look for a gift for a loved one.

It had never been published in novel (or book) form.

It was published in a magazine so clarification seems helpful here.

Of course , he would never buy it .

This could be joined with the previous sentence:
"It had never been published in novel form, so he would never find a copy."

I don ' t remember whether I had cut it out or not , except that I wasn ' t satisfied with it and it wasn ' t published .

Do you mean "thrown it out"? Discarded it?

I remember one night , many years ago , when I was still at school , my cousin asked me anxiously about a particular kind of paper for his wife, but I was unable to help .

another word you could use in this context is "earnestly". It has less of a negative connotation.
I earnestly ~ = I put my best effort into ~
I anxiously ~ = I nervously ~

Once upon a time , wWe desperately tried to find something for the people we loved , but it was not anything valuabwere not able to find anything worthwhile , and finally we even returned disappoint the end, we returned empty handed .

The process in itself is already a gift

Two months ago , I received an email from a boy who told me that his girlfriend was eager to retrievefind one of my old novels , and he was naturally obligated to search everywhere for her , but he could not find it .

There shouldn't be any space before punctuations.

Theis novel had been serialized in a magazine many years ago .

It's better to use "This" for clarification.

It had never been published .

Of course , he would never be able to buy it .

Do you mean that he wouldn't be able to buy it because it was never published or do you mean that he had no intentions of buying it?

Two months later , I received another E - e-mail from him .

This time , he was very anxious toand sayid that his girlfriend ' s birthday was coming up and thatso he would love to give her the novel because she had said many times that she wanted to read it again .

Theis passionate boy asked me :" , "If you have the file of the novel , can you give it to me ?"

I had written it by hand , and the manuscript was lost somewhere .

I don ' 't remember whether I had cut it out or not , exceptf the magazine out or not. I only remember that I wasn ' t satisfied with it and it wasn ' 't published .

Do you mean cut it out out of the magazine?

Not wanting to disappoint him , I suggested that he send his girlfriend the three e - -mails we had exchanged .

She would have been touched to know that he had tried so hard to find the novel for her , just because she had said that she would " 'love to read it again ".'

Sometimes , the process is more important than the result .

I remember one night , many years ago , when I was still at school , my cousin asked me anxiously about a particular kind of paper for his wife, but I was unable to help .

Once upon a time , we desperately triedWe often try to find something for the people we loved , but it was notends up not being anything valuable , andso we finally we even returned disappointed .

Can you clarify what you mean here? Maybe my correction isn't conveying what you want to say properly.

The process of searching processin itself is already the best gift .