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Geoff and Athena meet at the same coffee shop, and it becomes apparent that Athena’s account is not being manipulated by Geoff. June asks if he has any ideas about who it could be, but he insists that it is just someone trying to unsettle her. He shows her how the picture was photoshopped and that there is no chance that Athena is actually alive. He does sympathize with her, however, about being haunted by Athena’s ghost. He tells June about how so much of their relationship ended up in her writing; he would open up to Athena, only to find his emotions in the pages of her next story. Geoff tells June, “Sometimes she would say things that made me upset, or ask about things I’d been through–and as time went on all I could think was that she was mining me, using me as fodder” (280). June sympathizes with Geoff, seeing that both of their relationships with Athena were impacted and manipulated in the same way for her writing. As they talk, June sees Athena’s ghost in the window wearing her green shawl: visible, but only for a second. Before they part for a final time, Geoff encourages Athena to block out the haters and prevent them from having undue influence on her life.