[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Well, honestly, I'll have to read this again in order to answer that properly, but:

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I know at the time I wondered if that were really true, that perhaps Turo did get them but denied it, or tossed them aside, or ignored them in some way perhaps denying his affection/attraction to May. Of course, there are also a number of characters who could have intercepted them. In a way it mirrors the dissappearance of his wife, The women in Toru's life seem to keep vanishing in one way or another.

Honestly though, I'm very sketchy on the details - so I'll reserve the right to revisit this response.

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I think a common theme of "dissappeared and misplaced items/people" is a good theory.