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Reduced to a sentence on your death doula’s phone is a little sad.

Random. Are we trying to imply she’s from Amsterdam?. — “In Amsterdam, if you have no one to…”

I don’t know how these three metaphors connect with one another.

Look, if my spouse could only speak in work metaphors, I would go crazy. “You are like a syringe that infuses our family with saline.”

Nope. These creepy candles had me thinking horror story not romance.

When I was dying, I consciously began to shed things I decided I didn’t need or want. — “what are you doing now to appreciate what you have left? What gives your life meaning?”

Romans did it first. — “…based on the nine contemplations of dying—written by Atisha, a highly revered Tibetan monk, in the eleventh century.”

Fun idea for trauma in general. — “And if you ask up front if he wants to talk about how he feels—or doesn’t—“

True. But I get it, people want easy conversation topics. — “Don’t think you have to discuss the illness. Sometimes, a sick person needs a break.”

You got me! I admit I was surprised.

Axiom or dictum? 970 people highlighted it. I disagree with it.

Then what is the definition of special? — “Just because I get close to something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable doesn’t mean I’m special.”

Ugh. — “I am only tracing art that already exists.”

What does this mean? — “The bass thumps so strong my pulse adjusts, a new moon and its tide.”

This seems like something she needs to tell Brian.

I wouldn’t call this a twist, but a surprise. Humor likes breaking assumptions too

She can quote Pliny the Elder?

Ok. We get told what Modern Art is.

Wyatt compliments Dawn endlessly. Dawn reciprocates nothing. In fact, she mocks him.

Sand sex. Ouch

During my second year of high school, my hard drive broke. All the poetry I had exchanged a year before with my first girlfriend was lost.

I can’t believe it. He’s reciting poetry. What do we call this? Byronic?

What a fun fantasy Dawn is having.

Wyatt with his shower of compliments.

Wyatt says things like they’re true, but he’s wrong.

Big jump in logic. Also vague. — “The point is that anyone could reach the afterlife, too. All you really needed to do was live morally.”

Didn’t we just spend chapters giving evidence that it wasn’t a choice? — “This isn’t the life I chose to lead.”

Supposedly important things we’ve left behind: airplane crash, mother dying, brother dying, grandmother dying.

This has me reflecting on genres. We’re following convention so closely that I knew this scene was coming since chapter 2. We need a twist or a subversion.

Blonde with blue eyes is sad. Turn-on?