His revisionist history in sequels really drives me bananas. Why even bother to use the same characters over and over, if you’re going to make them into radically different people?
No way Lorena would’ve become a schoolteacher, much less marry Pea Eye. Pea Head. Whatever his name was.
Aurora would’ve done a MUCH better job of raising those grandkids - Melanie should never have turned out to be a loser, and Teddy was not meant to be a drug dealer. I don’t buy her maid marrying a millionaire, either. And Hector could not possibly have croaked in a cheap diner, not in his Brooks Brothers suit.
Harmony working at a recycling plant? Are you nuts? She’s the one who said, when asked if she could learn to operate computers, “Well, maybe a small one.”
And please - Dwayne had Shorty when he turned 50. His birthday was in that book. No way he’d have 4 subsequent dogs before he turned 60! You made it sound like that was a 20 year gap, not 10!