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** HarsherInHindsight when you remember that Neil's father died in 2009, and while touring for [[Literature/TheGraveyardBook The Graveyard Book]] Neil wore his funerary clothes, even for TheColbertReport.

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** HarsherInHindsight when you remember that Neil's father died in 2009, and while touring for [[Literature/TheGraveyardBook The Graveyard Book]] Neil wore his funerary clothes, even for TheColbertReport.''Series/TheColbertReport''.
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* The RealitySubtext behind the book, dissected to death in [[http://tonyortega.org/2013/06/21/in-his-new-book-is-neil-gaiman-exorcising-his-scientology-past/ this article]]. Creator/NeilGaiman started writing the story as a memoir for AmandaPalmer, after all, so the truth inspired it.

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* The RealitySubtext behind the book, dissected to death in [[http://tonyortega.org/2013/06/21/in-his-new-book-is-neil-gaiman-exorcising-his-scientology-past/ this article]]. Creator/NeilGaiman started writing the story as a memoir for AmandaPalmer, Music/AmandaPalmer, after all, so the truth inspired it.
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* The RealitySubtext behind the book, dissected to death in [[http://tonyortega.org/2013/06/21/in-his-new-book-is-neil-gaiman-exorcising-his-scientology-past/ this article]]. NeilGaiman started writing the story as a memoir for AmandaPalmer, after all, so the truth inspired it.

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* The RealitySubtext behind the book, dissected to death in [[http://tonyortega.org/2013/06/21/in-his-new-book-is-neil-gaiman-exorcising-his-scientology-past/ this article]]. NeilGaiman Creator/NeilGaiman started writing the story as a memoir for AmandaPalmer, after all, so the truth inspired it.
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** HarsherInHindsight when you remember that Neil's father died in 2008, and while touring for [[Literature/TheGraveyardBook The Graveyard Book]] Neil wore his funerary clothes, even for TheColbertReport.

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** HarsherInHindsight when you remember that Neil's father died in 2008, 2009, and while touring for [[Literature/TheGraveyardBook The Graveyard Book]] Neil wore his funerary clothes, even for TheColbertReport.
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* There's also the fact that, after remembering what happened regarding Lettie and the Hempstocks, [[spoiler:the narrator forgets everything all over again.]] Keep in mind he hasn't thought about Lettie in ''decades'' at the start of the book.

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* There's also the fact that, after remembering what happened regarding Lettie and the Hempstocks, [[spoiler:the narrator forgets everything all over again.]] Keep in mind he hasn't thought about Lettie in ''decades'' at the start of the book.book.
* The RealitySubtext behind the book, dissected to death in [[http://tonyortega.org/2013/06/21/in-his-new-book-is-neil-gaiman-exorcising-his-scientology-past/ this article]]. NeilGaiman started writing the story as a memoir for AmandaPalmer, after all, so the truth inspired it.
** HarsherInHindsight when you remember that Neil's father died in 2008, and while touring for [[Literature/TheGraveyardBook The Graveyard Book]] Neil wore his funerary clothes, even for TheColbertReport.
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* There's also the fact that, after remembering what happened regarding Lettie and the Hempstocks, [[spoiler:the narrator forgets everything all over again.]] Keep in mind he hasn't thought about Lettie in ''decades'' at the start of the story.

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* There's also the fact that, after remembering what happened regarding Lettie and the Hempstocks, [[spoiler:the narrator forgets everything all over again.]] Keep in mind he hasn't thought about Lettie in ''decades'' at the start of the story.book.
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* The narrator mentioning that it took him to the age of 20 to actually become friends with his father, who he felt might have been disappointed by his bookish son.

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* The narrator mentioning that it took him to the age of 20 to actually become friends with his father, who he felt might have been disappointed by his bookish son.son.
* There's also the fact that, after remembering what happened regarding Lettie and the Hempstocks, [[spoiler:the narrator forgets everything all over again.]] Keep in mind he hasn't thought about Lettie in ''decades'' at the start of the story.
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* The narrator mentioning that it took him to the age of 20 to actually become friends with his father, who he felt might have been disappointed by his bookish son.
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* At the end of the story, we find out that [[spoiler: Lettie is still alive, but still, as of yet, unable to talk or move about. It's implied her healing may take much longer than the narrator has to live, so while she will survive the ordeal, he'll never get a chance to actually talk to her again.]]

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