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** "Mommy, I brought you something!"
** A more prosaic example, when Louis mulls over resurrecting Gage.
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*** [[Unfortunate Implications]] most definitely into play here, as regardless of our supposed tolerance for the mentally disabled, the fear of having a disabled child is still an extremely potent source of HONF for most young parents.
*** [[Nightmare Retardant]] here for parents of profoundly disabled kids or other people who've worked with them. At least one reader's first thought here was, "He'll be able to master the first-grade primer at any point in his life? Good for him!"
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* [[Tear Jerker]]: Louis weeping and cradling Gage's deceased body, and when Louis weeps as he carries {{spoiler|Rachel's body to the burial ground, hoping she will come [[Back From the Dead]].}}
** The scene, both in the movie and the book, where Louis and his father-in-law start to fight at {{spoiler|Gage's funeral}}, and ''knock over his coffin.''
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* [[The Woobie]]: Ellie Creed. [[Tethercat Principle|At the end of the story]] she's sedated in the hospital, perhaps driven half-mad from unheeded psychic warnings, her brother is dead, {{spoiler|as is her mother, and her cat, and in the movie her father (though it's a given that he'll also die soon in the book)}}. And all this at the age of six...
** [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Louis, who just won't learn his lesson about letting dead stay dead, but you can't help but pity him anyway.
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