What did you think about the Admiral and his wife trying to put their son Harlan "back together" again? I thought it was a really interesting way to end the book, and I liked how it was progressively mentioned throughout the story. In the beginning, it was more of a creepy legend, but as the story progressed, we learned more and more about "Humphrey Dunfee" and why his parents were searching for him.
"Like a water vapor crystallizing into the magnificent, unique form of a snowflake, the babble of voices coalesces into a single conversation . . . He looks at the crowd and says weakly, 'H-Harlan?'
Every eye in the garden turns toward him. A man raises his hand to his throat, touching it gently, and says in a voice that is most definitely Harlan Dunfee's, just a bit older, 'Dad?'"
I honestly started to tear up at this part, and I thought it was really amazing that after all those years the Dunfees had finally put their son back together again.
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