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Hi, Wynne,

Good question. Leo didn’t HAVE to die. I chose to have him die as a part of Dexter’s growing up process. The story of Leo and Dex came to a climactic ending when Dex discovered the room where the codebreakers had worked during the war. It was just the natural outcome of a relationship between a 12-year-old boy and a man of 99.          —–Gordon Korman—–