Re: Do Disaster/Post-Apoc/End-o'-the-World characters ever have families?

In article <1179549998.013771.307040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter Meilinger <p_meilinger@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Emergence by David R. Palmer - did
we even know what happened to what's
her name's family? Been so long since
I read the book. If she mourned for them,
she got over it pretty quick.

As I recall, it had been just her and her father for some time.
He was the one who built the well-stocked survival shelter under
their home in which she'd waited out the disaster, but he had
been attending a conference in Washington, D.C., that day. She
sort of alternated between "I think he's dead" and "I can't
believe that he'd have let himself get stuck in an obvious-target
city like that when he _knew_ that there was a crisis brewing, so
maybe he's still alive"; both attitudes were leavened with a
strong dose of "Either way I can't do anything about it at the
moment, and I know he wouldn't have wanted me to collapse in a
puddle of helpless despair so I won't."

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William December Starr <wdstarr@xxxxxxxxx>

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