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and never knew why he had come anyway except to see me.
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In that moment Sal supplies the answer for why Dean came,
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"never knew why he had come anyway,"
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and then Sal supplies "except to see me,"
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and his own pain and tears are routed through Laura.
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It's Laura who cries at Dean's abandonment, while he maintains this composure,
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this masculine composure: "he'll be all right."
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But, the sadness here is surely Sal's.
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By the end, the language of experience--this is on 304--
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the language of experience that Dean represents is completely exhausted.
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This is how Dean talks at the very end:
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He couldn't talk anymore.