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If you were Katey would you have tried harder to end up with Tinker at the end, or would you just let him go like she actually did in the book?
Judy Lindow (spoiler) No. She says after spending her last night with him, going back and finding him gone: Some of you will think this a romantic thing to have d…more(spoiler) No. She says after spending her last night with him, going back and finding him gone: Some of you will think this a romantic thing to have done. But at another level, the reason I went back for Tinker's things was to assuage a sense of guilt. For when I ad walked in the room and found it empty, even as I was fending off a sense of loss, a slender, vigorous part of myself was feeling a sense of relief." The intense romantic love had run it's course. This chapter depicted the closure of it - which actually enabled the long term love and memories that she revisits in the last pages of the book. Who, besides myself, has not felt that kind guilty sense of relief (and sadness) when both persons, at nearly the same time, realize a relationship is over?(less)
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Rules of Civility
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