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Elizabeth picture on Karen's nighstand




David Traversa. Maybe I missed something, but I was quite surprised when on the very last scene, Karen goes to bed and before switching off the light, she looks at a framed picture where we see Elizabeth pregnant. Where or who gave her that picture??

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Elizabeth included the picture in the letter that was delivered to Karen too late.

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David Traversa. Thank you Vladak86, I really missed that detail. Now the ending makes perfect sense.

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Who was in the other photo? If it was Elizabeth then how did she get it? Or was it when she was pregnant with Elizabeth?

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Wow, I'll have to re-watch that scene because I only remember Elizabeth's polaroid sitting on Karen's nightstand. Are you sure there were 2 photos there?

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Yes, there were two photos, and both had exactly the same prominence, in the camera shot. But the one you apparently didn't notice was placed by Karen on the stand first. It looks like a younger Elizabeth - maybe 8 or 9 years old.

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Oh, that was a younger Elizabeth? I thought it was a boy.

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One was of Elizabeth that she did a selfie of to put in with the letter to her birth mother. The other was of the guy who got Karen pregnant with Elizabeth (David Morse's character). It was a school picture of him. Apparently they were school sweethearts at the time when they were 14 when she got pregnant.

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