Status Updates From The Last Chairlift

Adam has a thing for Em, one of the women he's been hanging with. He does hint that Em may have been more interested in Nora. He refers to Nora, who recently died, as the love of Em's life. Em has told him to quit looking at her "like that".

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Nora is shot at the Gallows, where she sometimes performs. The shooter kills himself.

An avalanche kills the Little Barlows. The snowshoer had seen "a kind of crazy rapture, or at least relief on their frozen faces. She's seen (or had imagined) "the intense joy or at least relief" parents feel when they know their children will outlive them.

Irving addresses the AIDS epidemic through one of his minor characters.