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It’s so trite. Maybe the movie will be okay?

At first, I did. But on the plane ride home I came back to you, Flo, to you and me together. I vowed to forget about her. But the truth is I never did. And once or twice a year I would call her. And...
Then came a silence so deep and I knew. I said, You have a child with her. He said, I do. A son. -p191
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Why, I'd put a kindness booth on the sidewalk in front of my house if I thought I could get away with it. A kindness stopping off point, you come down the street and stop in front of my booth and I tell you something to make you feel good. Or give you a donut or a flower, your choice. I wish I could do that, Ruthie, just thinking about it makes me feel better. -page 185

She had a friend who used to say love was just so people would procreate, but it’s not true. Love is so that people have a REASON. -Page 156

One is I thought maybe I'd like to find her a little gift because of how she gifted others. The other reason is I thought maybe I would hold that idea inside to look forward to. I'm sure you've heard this, Mildred, but they say you need someone to love, something to do-"
"And something to look forward to," Mildred says.
"Right. So that is one of my something to look forward to. Page 127

Seems like a lot of people begin at some point to get concerned about that, mostly women, as they are the more responsible of the species, let's put the cards on the table, it's usually the women doing most of the organizing and caretaking and the decision-making. Page 118

I'll tell you true, Ruthie, this is a crowded house.
Long about in my mid-seventies, saw it was happening that my things were beginning to own me rather than the other way around. So many things. Page 118

Flo has always loved that her neighborhood is near the little branch library. It's no more than a five-minute walk from Flo's house, and she decides she'll go there today to ask some questions of the librarian that might help with Teresa.
She puts on a black dress with blue Howers, one of her favorites, never mind the fraying on the edge of one side of the belt. Page 66

Temazepam (brand name Restoril) is a benzodiazepine used for the short-term treatment of insomnia, helping users fall and stay asleep. It works by slowing brain activity to promote sleepiness. Common side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, and fatigue. It is habit-forming and requires caution to avoid addiction, withdrawal, or dangerous interactions with alcohol or opioids.

455 Joyce: Because Peter Mercer murdered Annie Madeley, Penny murdered Peter Mercer. Because Penny murdered Peter Mercer, John murdered Ian Venthan.

447 Bogdan confesses to Stephen (remember, Stephen has dementia) about the people he killed. Bogdan killed Tony Curran. “Gianni killed my friend, but Tony told him to. I don’t care, is same thing.” Gianni killed Kazimir. Bogdan kills Gianni in the river. Steve covers for Bogdan.
453 Elizabeth reaches for Stephen’s TEMAZEPAN, then pauses and puts it back.

433 “Nearly 50 years ago Peter Mercer murdered his girlfriend, Annie Madeley, then vanished into thin air.” Penny killed him and buried the body. In her early dementia state, Penny told her husband John about it. John injects Penny with lethal dose, goes home and commits suicide. Elizabeth knows about it and facilitates John’s suicide by letting him go home.

425 Penny’s husband is a veterinarian. John gives Matheson a lethal shot. Matheson is okay with that since he is so poorly off.

375 Really getting tired of Ron, or anyone, telling Chris what he should eat.
395 Maggie the nun commits suicide because she is pregnant with Father Matthew’s child. Consensual love affair. Poor Matthew Mackie found her.
402 Jason tells the group that Gianni killed Tony.
421 An international warrant has been issued for the arrest of Gianni Gunduz for questioning in the murder of Tony Curran.

336 And then in walks Steve Georgiou.
Bernards Cottle’s suicide. He explains why he buried Asima’s ashes under “their” bench.
348 “Some people love their children more than they love their partner,” says Ibrahim, “and some people love their partner more than their children. And no one can ever admit to either thing.”
353 Gemma Ventham, Ian’s widow sold Coppers Chase Holdings to Bramley Holdings.

314 Peter Ward, the owner of The Flower Hill shop is Bobby Tanner.
318 Peter Ward says: The Boy Tony shot in Black Bridge? Gianni shooting the taxi driver who got rid of the body?”
323 Bernard Cottle misses his wife Asima.
325 Peter Ward’s brother died.
331 Bernard Cottle sits in the shed in a folding chair and weeps for what he has done. Note: it’s a betrayal, not a murder.

291 “So Jason Ritchie for the Tony Curran murder,” says Chris. “And Matthew Mackie for Ian Ventham?”
312 But Chris thinks Bobby Tanner is still out there somewhere, and if he’s still out there somewhere, then who’s to say he hadn’t just paid a visit to Tony Curran for some long-forgotten reason? Something to do with his brother drowning with that boat full of drugs

268 Jason still remembers the boy Toni had shot. … Steve Georgiou was a Cypriot lad
273 Not so long ago, Donna had been sitting in this interview room talking to someone pretending to be a nun (Elizabeth). She now sat in front of a man pretending to be a priest (Matthew Mackie).
274 Dr. Michael Matthew Noel Mackie, GP
281 The lad who took the photo: Turkish Gianni
285 Austin, friend of Elizabeth’s

222 (Chris) Ian Ventham’s death was caused by fentanyl poisoning.
235 DI Terry Hallet
236 Bogdan visits “Marina” and Stephen answers the door.
241 Chris would often tell friends that if there was business in their neighborhood that didn’t make any sense, which had no customers, then it was a front for a drug business.
261 “Do you think Bernard Cottle is banging Joyce, Ibbsy (Ibrahim)?” says Ron.”
267 Turkish Gianni