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- The black Members Only jacket that Atticus wears references Richard Ramirez who wore the same jacket. When Atticus says, "Let's just say it's a stabilizing force in my life," he's quoting the man himself.

- Roman is an unreliable narrator; his interactions with Alice, particularly contrasted with her own chapter, expose this. Roman frames one moment as a struggle to resist something as simple as a kiss when they hide in the coffin, only for Alice’s perspective to reveal him willingly crossing a far more explicit boundary when he calls her.

- If you were to multiply the seemingly random numbers of the passcode to Mariona's phone, you'd be left with 666 (18 x 37)

- There are 33 Christ exclamations (phrases such as "Jesus Christ," "jumping Jesus," "for Christ's sake," "Jesus," "Christ on a cross," and "sweet Jesus.") This number symbolically aligns with the age Jesus Christ was at the time of his crucifixion.

- In Vince's love letter to Sloane, in the chapter, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, each letter at the beginning of every sentence spells "don't trust him."

- In several scenes with Vince, he uses words that appear Greek to Roman ("weirdacraist," "Kaklesia", "grumpler," "thymomorfos") but are not italicized. These are actually neologisms, made-up words, a symptom of Vince's schizophrenia. Roman mostly overlooks them, since in these states it’s easier for Vince to slip into his mother tongue than rely on a secondary language. The only one Roman truly notices is "grumpler," because it aligns more closely with English given the context.

- Alice and Sloane have the same handwriting.

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