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One of the dead Carl mourns in the dream, alongside his father and mother, for what could have been.
After Katia tells Carl that she loves him and Donut as much as she ever loved the woman and infant dancing before them, the two touch heads. In that moment Carl thinks of Asher, of his father, and of his mother, and he mourns what could have been.
The thought sits directly against Katia's grief for baby Annie, the family neither of them was allowed to have.
Not described in this chapter.
A figure from Carl's past whose loss he mourns while witnessing Katia's.
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