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Ari, after breaking his leg while trying to save Dante from the car, feels new intensive emotions while in the Hospital. He feels overwhelming emptiness and is in a depressive state of mind. Nevertheless he healthily works through these emotions and grows from it.

Ari feels pressure to deviate within his family. However for him, this isn't possible, his brother was the type of person as Ari but he landed in prison. His family does not allow ANY talk of Ari's brother, and Ari says that it feels like his brother is, in a sense, dead. This unspoken rule might make him worry that he could end up like his brother.