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“I think this is a dream, Sandra. I think this never happened.”

“What do you mean?”

“Joy, don’t you dare touch Luis!” Justin suddenly yells. I still refrain from looking up.

“As if I would ever touch him!” Joy answers quickly.

“What do you mean?” Sandra asks again.

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Jan 23
Jan 23 S02E184 The Family Reunion, Part 3, Justin’s Return

The Justin in front of my eyes disappears, and Sandra runs to Justin and hugs him.

“Hey, honey, welcome back!”

She stands on her tiptoes and kisses him on the lips and he kisses her back.

Oh, my! I see Suzy look at the kiss with eyes wide open.

“Yuck!” Luis and Joy say together.

Justin straightens and looks around. “Joy, come here!”

Joy runs to him and leaps on him. He lifts her up and hugs her. She hugs him like she hasn’t seen him in years.

“Oh, my god,” Justin says. “You survived! Thank god! It must have been so awful for you! All alone!”

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Jan 23
Jan 23 S02E183 The Family Reunion, Part 2: Strange Reunion

“So what did the doctor do?” I ask. I know I’m in a dream, but being in a hospital, being treated by a doctor, makes me feel safer.

Suddenly, Justin just appears in front of my eyes. “Dad, Dad, are you okay?”

“Shooting fairies!” I hear Joy yell. And finally I see her. She’s sitting on one of the chairs, below my eyesight as I’m lying down, my face up. She is so worked up.

“Hey, buddy,” Justin takes Luis in his arms. “Sandra, who’s the girl?”

Joy jumps to her feet. “You! Say that to me again and I’ll make you permanent and then kill you!”

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Jan 20
Jan 20 S02E182 The Family Reunion, Part 1: The Fourth Grandchild

I wake up on some kind… bed? I’m not sure. A young woman, around Justin’s age, is looking at me. Behind her, that ceiling! I’m in a hospital!

I try to get up quickly, “Where am I? Joy? Master Mind?”

I see Suzy’s face looking at me. “Shhh,” she says. “Lie down.”

“Oh, my, my,” the woman says. “You were very lucky, Walt. The bullet went right through and didn’t hit anything major.”

“What’s going on?”

“The doctor was just in,” Suzy says. “He took care of you. He dressed your wound. You should be fine.”

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Jan 17
Jan 17 S02E180 The Children in the Camp, Part 14, The Hug

Joy lands on Sandra’s Shroom and calls us over.

There isn’t a time when Sandra’s name is uttered, that Joy doesn’t make a face or even a noise. But this girl does what’s necessary. She knows there are no doctors in our vicinity, and Sandra is the only medical person we know, even though she’s a Labor Delivery Nurse, and not an expert in bullet wounds.

But when we look down, the dream is empty of its dreamer. Sandra’s home is still there as well as Charlie’s elevator, both having been made permanent that time that Joy ran away from home. But Sandra isn’t here.

“She’s also in Toronto,” I say. I’ve heard she’s Justin’s neighbor, more or less. “It’s going to be a few hours until she or Justin get here.”

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Oct 10
Oct 10 S02E122 There Will Be Blood, Part 6, Haggling, the Fearful Robot, and the Magic Carpet

“Three weeks with no adventures! Just kill me now!” she exclaims. Madelyn and Charlie are shocked and they both gasp.

Justin is the only one who isn’t fazed by the things she says. “Two weeks,” he says.

“Two days,” she says. “I’ll be walking and jumping in two days!”

“Don’t you dare try to do that! The wound will open up and it’s not even closed yet!”

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Sep 29
Sep 29 S02E119 There Will Be Blood, Part 3, Medical Assistance

I am here with my granddaughter. I’ve stopped the bleeding. Artemis’ arrow is in her leg.

I’ve created a tourniquet but she’s lost so much blood! She needs help and I’m the only one here!

I hear a familiar sound above me.

Madelyn’s super wheelchair comes flying from the tunnel, and she heads right towards us.

“Mon dieu, Zhoy!” she leaps off the wheelchair and lands next to her. And suddenly she has legs! “Mon dieu, mon dieu, mon dieu,” she can’t stop saying it. “This is all my fault! How are you feeling, Zhoy?”

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Aug 29
Aug 29 S02E99 Reaching Outside the Dream, Part 1: Sandra’s Dream

Joy doesn’t wait for us.

She didn’t want to hear Charlie tell me who Luis is. She didn’t want to experience again, I assume, the feeling of seeing Justin have another child but her. Not that it was an actual child. As Charlie explained to me, Sandra dreamed that she and Justin were married and that they had a child called Luis. He wasn’t a real child, but a child in the dream. And yet, Joy is a child in the Dream, and whether she came from a dream or not, she is real and human and Luis is not.

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Aug 29
Aug 29 S02E98 Beach Time, Part 3, The False Child

Joy separates from Charlie and turns to me. “We have to tell Dad!” she says.

I run scenarios in my head. She’s right. We should tell Justin that Charlie can remember her outside the dream. But he’s on his private and secret romantic time with some dreamer. Do we wait? Do we tell him now? What should we do? No. She’s right. We shouldn’t wait with this news. “Let’s go now. Kids, get into your regular clothes.”

Charlie looks down at himself and he’s back to wearing jeans and his favorite T-shirt with the condor on it.

“No fair!” Joy says.

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Apr 24
Apr 24 S02E11 The Morning After, Part 11: The Neighbor