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* [[Both Sides Have a Point]]: When Amanda ends up in the hospital, Polly and Ivan devote all their attention to her while leaving Charlie at Al and Claire's place, his parents. Al calls out Ivan for this, saying that he hasn't spoken to Charlie in two days. At least give his son some comfort during this trying time. Ivan says that Charlie is old enough to understand this is a dire emergency and is independent to decide what he wants to feel. With that said, {{spoiler|he does catch up to Charlie when the latter is biking to school, and they talk it out while watching clouds}}.
* [[Break Her Heart to Save Her]]: Amanda ends her friendship with her best friend, not wanting her to grieve more than necessarily. She befriends Laurel, a medium who Polly was interviewing for a book, asking Laurel to talk to her after she dies. Laurel honestly says that she doesn't think she sees the dead, only dreams about them. Polly then asks Laurel to dream about her. Laurel promises.
* [[Breaking Bad News Gently]]: {{spoiler|When Charlie and his father reconcile, Charlie asks if AIDS is incurable. Ivan says that plenty of diseases thought to be incurable were treated thanks to science, like polio and smallpox. Charlie then asks if they'll find a cure in time to save Amanda. Ivan thinks about it, and says "No," gently]
* [[It's All About Me]]: Betsy's "apology" to Polly for severing ties with her, sending Severin to another school and making him end his friendship with Charlie amounts to this. She says she panicked, and Polly would have done the same thing if the roles were reversed, how much it ''pains'' her that Severin hates her for what she did, won't talk to her, and cries at night. Polly doesn't want to hear it; she'd rather get groceries, and points out rather coldly that ''she'' is the one with a dying child, not Betsy. Also she's spending more time with Amanda, so by all means she's more contagious if the scientists are wrong about AIDS transmission.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Laurel's medium gifts. At some point the ghosts stop talking to her, and she wonders if she was just dreaming them up for notoriety. Amanda, however, believes Laurel has real powers when she honestly says that if anything, she dreams of ghosts and they may not visit for real.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: When the local doctor Crosbie won't remove Amanda's braces because she has AIDS and it's her [[Last Request]], Ivan says that if they hadn't found another orthodontist, he would have marched into the office with a shotgun and killed Crosbie for stigmatizing his daughter.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Polly calls Betsy a "bitch" in her mind for ghosting her and hurting Charlie. She doesn't actually say it, however, because they are in a grocery store.
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