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"hi, lester averman, your very own court jester, ma'am."
" i'm lorelei myrtle... but, uh, you already know that. "

( it all ends with lorelei averman, no longer myrtle, rich and happy and in therapy.

it ends with her doing what she loves, working as a museum curator, surrounded by the history she always adored.

it ends with her giving birth to a healthy, eight lb. little boy who has all ten fingers and ten toes. they name him eli and, despite her fears that she would turn into her mother, he loves her so much that his first word is 'mom.'

it ends with rory having the big family with annual holiday pictures and ugly christmas sweaters and minnesota salads that aren't really salads that continue to boggle her mind.

it ends with the ducks having yearly get togethers, their kids more like cousins than the children of old friends, and never forgetting 1994, the year that brought them together.

it ends with the fact that lester averman kept his promise. it ends with him moving her seven hundred miles away from detroit, and treating her like the royalty he always thought she was. )

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