Anita answers “SPOILER ALERT DONT READ AHEAD! .... i...”

Lauren Singer Trakhman asked this question about The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2):

SPOILER ALERT DONT READ AHEAD! .... i must have missed something important - why did baby nicole have to be the one to go back into canada to transport the info? couldnt any mayday member who could pass for baby nicole at that age go back with the tattoo and do it? i feel like i missed a major thing here?

Anita The tattoo was where they hid the micro dot that had all the information on it. Why it had to be HER? Well, it would make becoming an Aunt and getting…moreThe tattoo was where they hid the micro dot that had all the information on it. Why it had to be HER? Well, it would make becoming an Aunt and getting in and out of Gilead a lot easier if she were someone you didn't want hurt, killed, or in any way messed with. A normal girl would've been sold off as a wife, econo-wife, or hanged if she did what Nicole did. But since it WAS Baby Nicole, they let her get away with a lot more that an ordinary girl would've been allowed and guaranteed her not ending up hanging from the Wall.(less)

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