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Marked by Fire Chapter 25 Summary

Tuesday Morning
November 7, 1967

  • Mother Barker is rocking in her chair next to the bed in which her husband, the foreman, rests. He is dying.
  • Abby brings in some tea and watches as Mother Barker lovingly tends to her husband in his final hours.
  • It's the truest of love between these two, and they reminisce about first meeting and marvel at the love they hold for each other.
  • The foreman—a.k.a. Barker—is in terrible pain and he wants to move on.
  • Mother Barker tells him she'll die, too, shortly after he does, and that in "the next life we will work other miracles […]." They're together forever, in other words.