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Jean

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Stacey Woods The wide variation fo answers here shows the point of the ending - based on what we all took from the book, who can say? Such a balance here between they will/they won't/they're awful, and the best part is we're all right! We all read the same book, but based on our life experience, we took such a wide variety of different things from it - none of them wrong - and are able to make up our own minds as to where the story goes afterward. It's an excellent book that lets you do that.

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Ed Bernard Wow, surprised to see the other answers here -- I think it's clear that the author expects them to re-unite, but that they need to re-establish the basis for their lives in the first place -- and I think, if I may make a suggestion, that they move somewhere else, leave behind all the cynical trappings of NY that neither of them really likes anyway, and be quick about it so there's still a chance of rescuing their teenage daughter. Also, might not be a bad idea for Libby to get her shit together a bit more too.

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Megan

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London Well, she shows up, but remember that this is only Libby's version of the ending. Who knows what the 'real' Rachel did.

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june3 I agree with Joey G. Yes, inevitably, but for all the wrong reasons. Rachel is feeling battered and unloved. Toby is feeling battered and unloved. No one has grown or learned anything nor has anyone grown stronger for the experience. Relationships do take work, but each is now worse for the experience of being apart. Disaster looms.

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Joey Gremillion Inevitably, but it would to be both of their detriments. Girlfriend needs some time on her own, therapy and she needs to move out of "The City" to a place where values are more mainstream and less selfish and shallow. After a couple of years and several dollars and hours of therapy, she could try to rekindle something with Toby, who, in my opinion, will end up with someone like his mother. Paging Dr. Freud.

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CaptC No. They failed as a couple and it only fell further apart after they separated. Rachel was far from even considering what it means to put her life together, and I see no reason to expect that it includes reconciling with Toby. And Toby found he had no problem drifting further from her. No sequel here.

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Dubhease I would have said no, but reading what everyone else said, I can see them getting back together because they are the only person who will put up with either of them. Neither of them knows how to be single or a real person.

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Judi Who cares? These pathetically flawed people should never NeVER have had children and I just could not care less about them and their vapid thoughts. All behave like teenagers, or pre-teens. What a waste. Of paper, of education, as something that I simply could not read to the end. Awful. Sure ‘tightly written’. I have no problem with the author’s style or writing ability. but the characters, good God. Some find it funny, I did not once see anything funny in this shallow, sad existence. Poor children of these two. One supposedly giving and protecting life. One, ? No idea her basis for being. ? I am important and make lots of money? Wow.

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Milie2112 Yes I think so..

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Joanie I think she does go back, but both of them need a lot of self-examination for their marriage to work. Basically, Toby doesn’t love Rachael anymore, and I’m not sure his love can be rekindled. Rachael would have to change back to who she was before, or who Toby thought she was, and her experiences have changed her. People don’t always change together so sometimes it’s best to move on, amicably, if possibly.

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Anne Sandberg Yes. I think they will both realize that all relationships take work, time and compassion and that the children will be happier in one home.

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