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My comments on Chapter 31 (Reef):

> Reef is alive! Theo is alive! Principal Latimore, Portia, and Declan are all alive! Declan is a hero! 

> “The fact that we knew exactly what we were doing make it look worse, not better.” – Reef is smart to clam up to the doctor about what happened in that cupola!

> It is poetic that the boys end up back in Memorial Hospital, right where the whole thing started for them.

> “He seems surprised–doubly so because of that missing eyebrow.” – Ha!

> I like the way Reef describes how the memories that belong to Theo feel different. I’ve picked up on that description for “wrong” memories in several of my favorite stories. The Hunger Games and The Hail Mary Project and Harry Potter and Brave New World and The Giver and The Knife of Never Letting Go come to mind. There’s clearly some connection between what we remember and how it makes us feel, aside from pure emotions, that appeals to my imagination.

> Reef has a history of being a mad scientist, if Theo’s correctly remembering 8-year-old Reef’s Halloween costume. So this whole story was on brand.

One more chapter!