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After Neil leaves, Susan starts telling this story. The story of a man so distraught over the loss of his son, so wracked with grief, that he can’t take it anymore. A man who leaves because he can’t bear to stay in the town where his son was dead and buried. Susan tells this story over and over.
She tells it to the people around town, who offer their condolences and sympathy. She tells it to Max, even though they both know it’s not the truth. But worst of all, what Max can’t stand to hear anymore, is the way Susan tells the story to herself. Between ugly gasps and sobs, a couple drinks too far gone, crying on the couch at night.
But the truth looks something like this…
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The canon reason for Neil leaving sucked and implied he cared about Billy… So I wrote my own explanation instead.
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