it was weird. the ending wasn't really an answer to any of our questions yet for some reason it felt like closure. it was also really weird to me that they left mary behind. I don't really understand why the author felt Mary played an important role in this last chapter. Obviously a living girl vs. a dead girl is a big deal in the real world, but for some reason in this story's little world, in their small town the people, "spoke of the Lisbon girls in the past tense and if they mentioned Mary at all it was with the veiled wish that she would hurry up and get it over with" (219). She simply played the role for about a month of being the one left behind, which is weird because in comparison to a character like Lux, for most of the story Mary was overlooked. I feel like so many things are still just left without any reasoning or purpose, but with a story like this, maybe thats a good thing.