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 | | Not with Christine, because of her lies and her foolish haste to marry a man she didn’t love, with Michael, because he is not their real father, or with their biological father, whose appearance in the novel is limited to a few lines of dialogue and some foreplay. |
 | | But if Christine can never have a true relationship with her girls, the same must necessarily be true of her relationship with her mother. |
 | | The Fletcher family, then, is not a real family unit - there are no biological fathers, only mothers and false patriarchs, and constant struggles between them. |
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