Flapper72 asked this question about The Pact:
Maybe I'm being a bit gormless (don't feel you have to answer that part of the question) but who was the father of Emily's child? I thought that that was going to be the spoiler. You got the impression that it wasn't Chris, that she had been abused ('evidence' from the art therapist) which had caused her feelings of hopelessness and no way out. Any ideas? Did I just miss it?
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Flapper72 Thanks. Perhaps I was being too literal with the abuse and that it didn't, necessarily, have to have been a literal thing with Chris. I just thought I ...more
May 13, 2015 10:55AM · flag
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L. McCord I believe the reflection of sexual abuse in Emily's art reflected the sexual abuse she incurred from the strange man in the bathroom when she was a ch ...more
May 16, 2016 11:25AM · flag
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