I'm here AT LAST!!! It was worth the wait, bb! <3 You know what I love about you (well, lots of things, but...) is that you care so much. You have such affection and empathy for characters a lot of people don't give a second thought. You don't miss a single thing when it comes to SHOW. This was so sad and beautiful and I love the way you looped poor Madison back into canon at the end - stroke of genius. I like your take on Purgatory too, especially the babies wailing. You are right, we never got to know too much about the inhabitants, but it stands to reason there would be all kinds of souls, both monstrous and those like Ellie, Madison and the babies.

I was going to cheapen the moment by saying something crass like 'at least she would have had the memory of a plowing from Sam to keep her warm in Purgatory', but I'll restrain myself...oh...hang on....

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