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Never Let Me Go

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Never Let Me Go	label	Never Let Me Go
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Never Let Me Go	comment	Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction/romance/drama novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day. The plot concerns three friends, Kathy, who narrates, Tommy and Ruth, who as children are students at Hailsham, an unusual boarding school in the isolated English countryside. As Kathy nears adulthood, the truth about Hailsham and its students is gradually revealed to the reader.A movie adaptation was released in 2010 starring Carey Mulligan as Kathy, Keira Knightley as Ruth, and Andrew Garfield as Tommy.
Never Let Me Go	fetched	2023-11-11T05:30:31Z
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Never Let Me Go / int_1104ca3f	type	Cure for Cancer
Never Let Me Go / int_1104ca3f	comment	Cure for Cancer: The clones have been exploited to cure cancer and many other diseases.
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Never Let Me Go / int_125f2ee7	type	Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath
Never Let Me Go / int_125f2ee7	comment	Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath: Creepily averted. In the film version, the hospitals are always shown slowly and deliberately murdering people. Obviously the "And I shall do no harm" code only applies to certain patients. And the worst part is the constant undercurrent of humiliation and shame as the victims are so clearly and ultimately shown that they are considered to be without real human value.
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Never Let Me Go / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Never Let Me Go / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: And how. Just about everything that's spoiler-sensitive on this page is all but explicitly revealed in the trailer for the film.
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Never Let Me Go / int_145babc0	type	Expendable Clone
Never Let Me Go / int_145babc0	comment	Expendable Clone: Widespread in the setting; clones only exist as organ donors for "normal" people.
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Never Let Me Go / int_17dbe19a	type	Internalized Categorism
Never Let Me Go / int_17dbe19a	comment	Internalized Categorism: Perhaps the most painful aspect of the story is that the characters never overcome their social conditioning. The government plan to murder them for no reason other than harvesting their internal organs, and they really don't want to die. They spend the story agonizing over their lives being cut short, grasping for straws as they try to find loopholes so they'll be allowed to stay alive a little longer, and feeling guilty about taking out their angst on each other. But none of them ever dare to admit even to themselves that the system is unfair, that they actually deserve to be allowed to live. They have been given an identity as sacrificial victims, and while they hate their place in life they fail to break free from this imposed image of who and what they are.
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Never Let Me Go / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Never Let Me Go / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The whole creepy system seems to run like a Swiss watch.
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Never Let Me Go / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Never Let Me Go / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Many TV advertisements for the film version made it look like your typical romantic drama. Nope, no science fiction or cloning in this movie...
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Never Let Me Go / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
Never Let Me Go / int_1b465242	comment	Occurs when Tommy is having his final screaming fit, having just learned the deferrals were a lie and he and Kathy cannot be together for much longer. Kathy tries to go after him but the mud sucks her feet down, and for a time she can only watch him from afar on top of a hill, contrastingly calm. Eventually she breaks the distance and holds him tight, as if "that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night".
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Never Let Me Go / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
Never Let Me Go / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: In this society it's widely accepted that clones are harvested for parts.
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Never Let Me Go / int_1c8e096e	type	Childhood Friend Romance
Never Let Me Go / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Sparks have been flying between the three main characters since their childhood. Eventually, Kathy and Tommy end up together, but not before Ruth throws a wrench in things.
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Never Let Me Go / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Never Let Me Go / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: A world where harvesting humans for parts is the norm scores fairly high on the crapsack meter, although most of society doesn't see it this way.
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Never Let Me Go / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Never Let Me Go / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Nobody even tries to do anything about their situation, then they die.
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Never Let Me Go / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Never Let Me Go / int_2eb94abd	comment	People "are completed" on an industrial scale. And "completed" actually equals "murdered".
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Never Let Me Go / int_36fa0cc	type	Clones Are People, Too
Never Let Me Go / int_36fa0cc	comment	Clones Are People, Too: The real objective of Hailsham's Gallery was to prove this trope. And... it failed. Or, almost, it succeeded too well — the world didn't want to consider that clones could be people, because that would mean giving up their safer, disease-free world. So Hailsham was defunded and the clones were pushed back into the shadows.
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Never Let Me Go / int_3791608	type	Tracking Chip
Never Let Me Go / int_3791608	comment	Tracking Chip: In the movie, the students have microchips implanted in their wrists. It is honestly more intriguing that in the book they do not have a tracking device. In fact, there is nothing stopping them from disappearing forever and integrating into society. But no one ever does.
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Never Let Me Go / int_389f6c7b	type	Sugary Malice
Never Let Me Go / int_389f6c7b	comment	Sugary Malice: Ruth has a bit of this, fueled by her fear of being left alone. Far worse, however, is the clinical kindness that the system shows its victims while pushing them down into despair and death.
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Never Let Me Go / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Never Let Me Go / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: The students we follow in the story do this to a remarkable degree.
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Never Let Me Go / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
Never Let Me Go / int_3b39c254	comment	Dystopia: As is Miss Emily's point at the end of the film, human are free of serious illness and live to over 100, which would usually be regarded as something of a utopian circumstance. However, the lives of the clones are very dystopic: no family, strict boarding schools, no ability to have children, donating organs then premature death. And they are conditioned to accept this as the only way of life, and that escape causes pain.
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Never Let Me Go / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Never Let Me Go / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: Hailsham seems at first to be an idyllic children's boarding school full of happy, rosy-cheeked children. The truth about society as a whole is worse.
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Never Let Me Go / int_3c9267d2	type	Flatline
Never Let Me Go / int_3c9267d2	comment	Flatline: Played with. When Ruth flatlines, she's surrounded by medical professionals who keep going about their job of killing her.
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Never Let Me Go / int_3ee5fd12	type	One-Letter Name
Never Let Me Go / int_3ee5fd12	comment	One-Letter Name: The characters' surnames are only a letter. Part of how the system tries to dehumanise them while emphasising their lack of human connections.
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Never Let Me Go / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Never Let Me Go / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: Donors aren't considered human enough to have surnames and have to make do with a single letter.
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Never Let Me Go / int_44c59f9f	type	IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
Never Let Me Go / int_44c59f9f	comment	I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Ruth accepts that she was wrong in separating Kathy and Tommy and wishes for them to be together despite her own feelings for the latter in the later parts of the story.
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Never Let Me Go / int_45bdaa0e	type	Just Ignore It
Never Let Me Go / int_45bdaa0e	comment	Just Ignore It: It is hinted and subsequently revealed by Miss Emily that most people on the outside wilfully ignore the cruelty inflicted on clones.
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Never Let Me Go / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Never Let Me Go / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: In this amazing world, people live long healthy lives to well past 100 years old. There's only one little unpleasant thing that everyone would rather not see or discuss.
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Never Let Me Go / int_4635c3d7	type	Walking Transplant
Never Let Me Go / int_4635c3d7	comment	Walking Transplant: This is explained in a matter of fact way to the students, and they accept their fate.
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Never Let Me Go / int_4af86843	type	Extranormal Institute
Never Let Me Go / int_4af86843	comment	Extranormal Institute: At Hailsham, the students don't learn anything that a normal boarding school population would learn and instead focus all their energy on creative projects. And, of course, they're all clones who have been acclimated to the reality that they will die young.
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Never Let Me Go / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Never Let Me Go / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Played with. The third act of the film is essentially a slow-motion Break the Cutie for all three of the main characters, but in-universe the donor programme is set up so that no-one regards them as cuties at all.
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Never Let Me Go / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Never Let Me Go / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ruth and Tommy die and Kathy will die eventually. There is no deferral, and institutes promoting treating the clones as people are being defunded and closed down, meaning it will only get worse for them.
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Never Let Me Go / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Never Let Me Go / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Subverted. Miss Lucy tells the young students that they're just walking organ donors and will be harvested until they die, but it doesn't shock the children, who have long since been resigned to their fate.
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Never Let Me Go / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Never Let Me Go / int_5a963d1c	comment	Kathy, towards the end of the book, considers this between her and her friends, imagining a line separating her and Tommy from Ruth, regarding how Ruth 'finished differently' to them as she never learnt the truth of the deferrals.
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Never Let Me Go / int_6455e8e	type	Life Will Kill You
Never Let Me Go / int_6455e8e	comment	Life Will Kill You: The film version ends with the protagonist thinking about how ordinary people aren't so different after all, how we are all living our lives on death row.
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Never Let Me Go / int_677ecaa9	type	People Farms
Never Let Me Go / int_677ecaa9	comment	People Farms: How donors are reported to be raised after Hailsham closed.
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Never Let Me Go / int_6d41b8da	type	Fantastic Aesop
Never Let Me Go / int_6d41b8da	comment	Fantastic Aesop: If you interpret the story as purely literal rather than Rule of Symbolism, it all boils down to cloning people so you can cut them up for spare parts is bad.
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Never Let Me Go / int_82d57ef5	type	Boarding School
Never Let Me Go / int_82d57ef5	comment	Boarding School: Hailsham is this, with a few notable differences from a regular boarding school.
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Never Let Me Go / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Never Let Me Go / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ruth is the livelier, more spirited Red to Kathy's more reserved, unemotional Blue.
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Never Let Me Go / int_85f102ac	type	Symbolic Distance
Never Let Me Go / int_85f102ac	comment	Symbolic Distance: The novel utilises this trope various times. This trope appears subtly throughout the whole book, in how clones and 'patients' are kept separate, as they are refused by most to be seen as human. Kathy imagines how the 'quiet country roads' exist just for the clones, while the big 'super motorways' exist for everyone else. Occurs when Tommy is having his final screaming fit, having just learned the deferrals were a lie and he and Kathy cannot be together for much longer. Kathy tries to go after him but the mud sucks her feet down, and for a time she can only watch him from afar on top of a hill, contrastingly calm. Eventually she breaks the distance and holds him tight, as if "that was the only way to stop us being swept away into the night". Kathy, towards the end of the book, considers this between her and her friends, imagining a line separating her and Tommy from Ruth, regarding how Ruth 'finished differently' to them as she never learnt the truth of the deferrals.
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Never Let Me Go / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
Never Let Me Go / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: In the movie, much of the jargon surrounding the Donor programme is never explicitly defined even by the narration and it's left to the viewer to infer meaning from context.
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Never Let Me Go / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Never Let Me Go / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Kathy keeps hers in the face of unimaginable loss.
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Never Let Me Go / int_921932c7	type	Activist-Fundamentalist Antics
Never Let Me Go / int_921932c7	comment	Activist-Fundamentalist Antics: Inverted - no matter how horrible things get, no one ever shows any outrage against the system. Two of the three protagonists have emotional outbursts of disapproval and almost hate, but always aiming at themselves.
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Never Let Me Go / int_9400b3b5	type	Questionable Consent
Never Let Me Go / int_9400b3b5	comment	Questionable Consent: The protagonists and others are getting exploited in the most brutal way, and they have all been conditioned to unquestioningly accept the system.
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Never Let Me Go / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Never Let Me Go / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Kathy is Betty, becoming a carer in the end of the film, while Ruth is Veronica, playing with people's hearts.
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Never Let Me Go / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Never Let Me Go / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Kathy herself questions this, especially at the end of the film, noting that humans and clones aren't so different, but the latter will continue to be dehumanized and treated poorly.
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Never Let Me Go / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Never Let Me Go / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Where instead of nuclear physics being the dominant science after WWII, cloning was. This results in a timeline where humans can regularly live past 100 and illness has been eradicated.Of course, only due to the medical exploitation of the clones.
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Never Let Me Go / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
Never Let Me Go / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: Since the students can't have children, sex isn't a taboo for them and everyone is pretty open about it.
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Never Let Me Go / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Never Let Me Go / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Ruth loves Tommy, despite his and Kathy's mutual attraction. Later, Kathy is obviously pining after Tommy despite his relationship with Ruth.
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Never Let Me Go / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Never Let Me Go / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Tommy is an emotional child and does this whenever he's teased and does so again as an adult when he finds out deferrals are a lie. It's also the closest anyone comes to rage against the system.
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Never Let Me Go / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
Never Let Me Go / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: Kathy and Tommy hope to prove that they are in love so that they could have a few more years together. The reader knows this isn't going to work and the naivete of the characters in thinking that it will is rather heartbreaking. Worse yet, this is really Ruth's dream, with her getting them together in a desperate attempt to save them.
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Never Let Me Go / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Never Let Me Go / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: It's a sign of the lack of love of life that the donors are brought up with the concept that deferring for three or four years before you are killed is considered the best the characters can hope for. And it soon becomes apparent that deferrals never existed.
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Never Let Me Go / int_c4dc0698	type	The Soulless
Never Let Me Go / int_c4dc0698	comment	The Soulless: Subverted in that while society prefers to see the students as without souls, they are clearly no different from regular people.
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Never Let Me Go / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Never Let Me Go / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Ruth intentionally does this to a sexually active Kathy to make her feel like Tommy wouldn't want to be with her.
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Never Let Me Go / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Never Let Me Go / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The book holds back most if not all of the details about the donations, keeping it vague what was actually donated and what procedures were performed.
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Never Let Me Go / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
Never Let Me Go / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: The main cast is overwhelmingly white.
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Never Let Me Go / int_cf7fafbb	type	Orphanage of Love
Never Let Me Go / int_cf7fafbb	comment	Orphanage of Love: Hailsham doubles as this, since all its students are orphans.
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Never Let Me Go / int_d16e293f	type	Creating Life Is Awesome
Never Let Me Go / int_d16e293f	comment	Creating Life Is Awesome: The cloned humans are kind and compassionate, and so are the humans who try to help them. Ironically, society doesn't want them to be good - it's easier to justify exploiting them if one can pretend that they are soulless.
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Never Let Me Go / int_d355ba37	type	Turned Against Their Masters
Never Let Me Go / int_d355ba37	comment	Turned Against Their Masters: Subverted - the audience keeps waiting for even one of the donors to rebel, but amazingly it never happens.
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Never Let Me Go / int_db68ca14	type	Died in Ignorance
Never Let Me Go / int_db68ca14	comment	Died in Ignorance: Ruth dies believing that Kathy and Tommy will be together through the deferrals, a rumored process that would allow clones who can prove they are really in love to live out a few years together before their organs are harvested. It is later found out by Kathy and Tommy that deferrals never existed at all, and was at most a Tragic Dream created by the clones. Kathy reflects on this and decides that it was best that Ruth died believing they could be happy together for a time.
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Never Let Me Go / int_dd48b81d	type	Totalitarian Utilitarian
Never Let Me Go / int_dd48b81d	comment	Totalitarian Utilitarian: The system, saving so many lives. Also the protagonists themselves, conditioned to disregard life and dignity for the greater good.. their own lives.
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Never Let Me Go / int_de56f2bf	type	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide"
Never Let Me Go / int_de56f2bf	comment	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": People "are completed" on an industrial scale. And "completed" actually equals "murdered". The word "donor" implies that the thing donated is given by choice.
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Never Let Me Go / int_e3add455	type	Children as Pawns
Never Let Me Go / int_e3add455	comment	Children as Pawns: Essentially stated by Miss Emily in The Reveal that the Hailsham clones were 'lucky pawns' in her plan to convince society that Clones Are People, Too.
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Never Let Me Go / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Never Let Me Go / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Tommy and Kathy, first coerced into a Love Triangle by Ruth and when they finally do get together, Tom is soon "completed".
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Never Let Me Go / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Never Let Me Go / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: Oh, this great system, saving so many lives...
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Never Let Me Go / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Never Let Me Go / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: For at least some in the alternate society. But Just Think of the Potential!!
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Never Let Me Go / int_f765e2d3	type	Dying Alone
Never Let Me Go / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Ruth's greatest fear in the first parts of the story. Later replaced by regret and a desperate hope that her loved ones will at least be allowed to have each other.
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Never Let Me Go	hasFeature	People Farms / int_3ad3e3bc
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Never Let Me Go	hasFeature	Sugary Malice / int_3ad3e3bc
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Never Let Me Go	hasFeature	The '90s / int_3ad3e3bc
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