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It's ridiculous. If she lived and was brought up in a brothel then she likely was sold to the highest bidder as a very young girl. And could not get out and brought up her own kids there. I do not want to see that.

CMTD that is an excellent description of what I also saw play out. Lord John has declared his feelings for Jamie in the past but been totally respectful of the fact that it's not reciprocated and I love that they built a real friendship anyway, even, in a way sharing a child. The heightened emotions of Jamie coming to Philadelphia, finding out that Claire had thought him dead and immediately remarried and then that she and his best friend had consumated that marriage -that's a lot for anyone and yeah, John's outburst put him over the edge.

Jamie can't hear or feel the stones but if I were him and my whole family could do it I'd try a bit harder. He walks up to the stones with Claire more than once and kinda shrugs guess I can't.

If I brought someone's baby back to life, brought it to their house and they had moved, I like to think that I would follow up by at least writing a letter to them or maybe even following on the next ship v. just shrug and keep it. But that's just me.

Apparently there are 4 readers who don't give a shit about Master Raymond. I barely remembered he existed.

Well maybe Jamie finally decides to try time travel and he thinks about Claire and winds up in 1945? and wants to see her with Frank because he's never seen Frank and he has to wonder if he broke up a happy marriage? Just spitballing here. If he's a ghost why would he visit that time to say goodbye to Claire? She wouldn't even recognize him

I think bigamy is only punished if it's intentional, ie if someone has multiple spouses without letting them in on it. It's fraud. Or having multiple spouses to get unearned benefits. It's obvious that this was not intentional bigamy so no harm no foul. If the British were still in control of Philadelphia they would likely go after Claire for treason.

It's horrible for everyone affected. I live in Florida and there are still people displaced by the hurricanes from a few years ago who are getting jerked around by insurance companies. There are people from all walks of life displaced but I do feel worse for the people on my street who are living in trailers on their land.

I think it's a much bigger stretch that Faith was born dead than her age. 😀

DisneyBoy, I went through the same mental process. I don't feel as bad for the wealthy as I do for the people who are going to be waiting on an insurance check to rebuild and having to pay to live somewhere in the meantime. I felt a little bad for Billy Crystal and his wife who lost the house they raised their family in. But they will be ok.

Well that's a good point, they are ending the show before the book series is done. I actually thought the perfect ending was when Roger Brie and the kids return to the ridge and Jamie and Claire spot them as they come down the mountain after a romantic interlude. "And they all lived happily ever after". Jamie and Claire have built a wonderful family of people who are not blood relatives. And at this point Ian is more theirs than not. Why do we have to make Fanny a blood granddaughter?

I'm trying to remember what was in the book and she teased that Faith might have survived but she did not.

That makes sense thank you

But did he know he was going back to Lallybroch? It just dawned on me that the gold was in North Carolina. Why is Roger looking around his house instead of going there? And why didn't he fly to NC in 1980 and go through the other stones instead of going through in Scotland and taking a ship with a sail? That didn't work super well the last time.

A key reason for the marriage is so Claire would not be arrested by the British as a spy and the people who would have done so are gone. The Americans may or may not know that. Those that do would say good plan. Those that don't would either say oops could happen to anyone but no harm done OR geez she could have waited a bit but none of my business.