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* {{Prequel}}: ''Mona of the Manor'' (published in 2024) is set in 1993.
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** BusCrash: [[spoiler:''Michael Tolliver Lives'' reveals that Mona died of cancer in her late forties/early fifties, during the hiatus between Books #6 and #7.]]

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** BusCrash: [[spoiler:''Michael Tolliver Lives'' reveals that Mona died of cancer in her late forties/early fifties, during the hiatus between Books #6 and #7.]] However, she's brought back for ADayInTheLimelight prequel in ''Mona of the Manor.'']]
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** In ''Babycakes'', Mona adopts a 17-year-old boy, Wilfred, whose biological family rejects him due to his sexuality. He seems to be this, though he never appears on-page again in the series and is only mentioned briefly in ''Sure of You''.

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** In ''Babycakes'', Mona adopts a 17-year-old boy, Wilfred, whose biological family rejects him due to his sexuality. He seems to be this, though he never appears on-page again finally gets a main role, grown up and still Happily Adopted, in ''Mona of the series and is only mentioned briefly in ''Sure of You''.Manor.''
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** WordOfGod is that Wilfred [[spoiler: will return in book ten of the ''Tales of the City'' series, ''Mona of the Manor'', to be published in late 2023]].

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** WordOfGod TheBusCameBack: Wilfrid is that Wilfred [[spoiler: will return in a main character of book ten of the ''Tales of the City'' series, ''Mona of the Manor'', to be published in late 2023]].Manor.''

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Beauchamp Day]], who dies in an accident after [[spoiler:putting a hit out on his wife's unborn twins]].

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** [[spoiler:Ernie Blaylock, who stalks and assaults his wife Rhonda after she leaves him following an earlier assault in ''Mona of the Manor''. The mysterious Mr. Scamp emerges from the woods and kills him in her defence.]]
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* AtTheOperaTonight

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* AtTheOperaTonightAtTheOperaTonight: in the first book, there's no mention of actual performance, but a lot of descriptions of the gossip and drug use among the audience.



* LibationForTheDead
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** WordOfGod is that Wilfred [[spoiler: will return in book ten of the ''Tales of the City'' series, ''Mona of the Manor'', to be published in late 2023]].
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* HasTwoMommies: Anna and Edgar, Jr. are raised by [=DeDe=] and her lover D'orothea.
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* {{Hypocrite}}:
** In ''Babycakes'', Brian is outraged by Mary Ann's one instance of infidelity (which she committed in an attempt to get pregnant, since Brian is infertile) and threatens to end their relationship over it. In ''Significant Others'', it's revealed that Brian has multiple extramarital partners. He only stops after one of these partners reveals to him that she's HIV positive and never tells his wife about any of it.
** Also in ''Significant Others'', Brian confesses to Mouse and asks him to keep it a secret that he's had a sex partner with HIV. Mouse agrees and never reveals to Mary Ann that her husband might have exposed her to a deadly virus. However, in ''Sure of You'', he agonizes over Mary Ann asking him not to tell Brian that she wants to get a divorce and move to New York, and eventually breaks his promise.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The third book includes kidnapping, gay-bashing, and rabbit-skinning. In general, the books published in the eighties and beyond are much darker.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The third book includes kidnapping, gay-bashing, and rabbit-skinning. In general, the books published in the eighties and beyond are much darker.darker ([[RealLifeWritesThePlot as one would expect from]] [[TragicAIDSStory stories set in gay San Francisco in that decade]]).

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** In ''Significant Others'', there is Mabel, the OnlySaneWoman at Wimminwood.

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** In ''Significant Others'', there is Mabel, Mabel may not be the OnlySaneWoman at Wimminwood.Wimminwood, given her propensity for taking a crossbow with her everywhere, but she's at least crazy in a different direction.


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* GayConservative: In ''Significant Others'', Mabel the bow-hunting Reaganite lesbian.
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* LadyDrunk: Mrs. Halcyon starts the series already fond of her Mai Tais, and by the events of ''Significant Others'' is virtually never sober.
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* TheQuincyPunk: Douchebag (Heidi to her mother) - a green-haired punk who wears garbage bags, hangs out in filthy dive clubs, sticks gum up her nose, wants to start a band in which the members menstruate on the audience, and agrees to commit [[spoiler: assault on a heavily pregnant woman with the intent of causing a miscarriage]] for the princely sum of three hundred dollars. Oh - and she's ''twelve''.

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