The Last Time I Saw You (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Dorothy Shauman Ledbetter: newly divorced, has a daughter who is planning her wedding, ex-husband has a new woman in his life
• Pete Decker: class heartthrob, separated, living with his mistress, 3 children with Nora
• Mary Alice Mayhew: self-reliant, always left-out, single
• Candy Sullivan Armstrong: class beauty queen, married without children
• Lester Heseenpfeffer: veterinarian and widower.
• Nora: part of the class/reunion, separated from Pete, has a new love, and mother to 3
• Einer: Mary Alice's next door neighbour, older gentleman, widower
• Linda: part of the class - Dorothy's friend, cheerleader
• Judy: part of the class - Dorothy's friend, sheerleader
• Jeanine: Lester's receptionist and friend
• Sarah Jane: Mary Alice's older sister
• Fred Preston: Nora's new love interest
• Esther: Candy's dog
• Pam Pottsman: part of the class, the planner of all their activities
• Nance Dunsmore: part of the class
• Sandy: Pete's mistress
• Rita: Einer's caretaker
• Samson: dog under Lester's care
• Buddy Dunsmore: Nance's husband and high school sweethearts
• Miranda: a young girl who wants to be a vet and lives next door to Lester
• Ben Small: part of the class, was an actor
• Cooper Anthony Armstrong: Candy's husband, lawyer
• Annie: slutty girl in class, was in med school and law school and now a lawyer
• Kathleen: classmate
• Marion: classmate
• Mike: classmate
• Walter Vogel: deceased loner, classmate
• Alan: Add a description of this character.
• Karen: classmate
• Jill
• Don
• Benny
• David
• Desiree: waitress
• Arthur
• Mason
• Tom Gunderson
• Dr. Johnston
• Hilly: Dorothy's daughter

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• “It comes to her that all of the people in this room are dear to her. As if they all just survived a plane crash together or something. All the drunks and show offs and the nice kids and the mean ones. All the people she used to know and all of the ones she never knew at all. And herself, too. She includes herself and her stingy little soul. And oh, What a feeling.”

  Dorothy Shauman Ledbetter

• “I think there's alone-alone; and then there's feeling alone when you're with someone, which is worse.”

  Lester Heseenpfeffer

• “The thing about everybody being your friend is that it can mean no one is.”

  Candy Armstrong

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• Paris
• Clearsprings

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1. Elizabeth Berg (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary