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Note to self: reference Aloha's excellent review for her awesome summation.

Curse short lunch breaks! I'm so close to the end and the suspense is killing me. Augh!!!

After all the ugliness (including Tamaru's latest actions, which took me by surprise) this is planning out to be a love story. It's quite an intriguing contrast, like coming out of winter into a lovely spring. But we're not done yet . . .

Wait a minute . . . was Kumi Adachi Tengo's reincarnated mother?!? I mean, it's just a theory I have but, if so . . . that's really, really interesting. Another unrevealed mystery.

I am so glad for the section on Aomame where we learn that she has a part in creating the story, in creating the world, through her own agency, even if she can't fully understand (nor can the reader) exactly how this happened. I don't always need all the whys and wherefores, like some readers, but I do like to know that the characters have agency, in this case the ultimate agency of forming the story itself.

Please tell me this is Tamaru.

Definitely explains the man in the hallway as being Tengo's father's ghost.

Tengo's father is dead, and I see so many parallels between their story and that of my father dying last Spring. It's not exactly the same, by any means - I had a better relationship with my father than Tengo had with his, for example - but there are a lot of parallels with the whole experience. Hits kind of a tender spot.

Ah, so two moons are not just limited to Tengo and Aomame. Interesting. My original hypothesis about life within the novel seems to hold.

Hmm. Curious if any of this chapter matters, as it's largely a rehash of previous events from a different POV. Filler?