What do you think is next for Lou? How would you cope with living forever?

Lou, the oldest child of the pecan trees, has an interesting relationship to time. As a Black man in the South, he’s lived through deeply painful history. Yet he owns a shop for old things and willingly goes through the time loop again and again to be with Russ. What do you think is next for Lou? How would you cope with living forever?

I would not want to live forever. Too sad to see my relatives and friends die and me left behind.

I hope Lou has access to a really big library, maybe even a Kindle. 😀 For me, the only thing worth living forever for would be the ability to lose myself continually in books! There are so many good ones out there, I know I will never have time to read the, all.

I suppose that it might be easier in some ways for Lou now that Autumn and Sasha are aware of his “secret”/curse and share it with him. The evil associated with the curse has been purged, and that could lead to more pleasant opportunities for those left behind.

I think in some ways it would be neat to be alive to see some of the important events throughout history. I would like the option of living forever more if I could also time travel. I could pop in during important moments in time and then jump to the next exciting or horrific event.

That would be taking the easy way out though because I wouldn’t really be around long enough to make meaningful connections with others if I was just “stopping by”.

Like Maggie, it would be very difficult and incredibly painful to lose all those close to me, knowing I would have to start building new relationships that will end the same way. Would I be open to letting people into my life?

I would not want to live forever. To watch my loved ones pass, no thanks.

Lou's story was one the sadder tales. It's not so much "living forever" that's hard; I think it's knowing tragedy awaits and reliving it over and over again in the time loop, the way Lou relived Russ's death, that would be horrible.

I imagine that now that the loop has been broken that Lou won't have a reason to keep living and will finish out his natural lifecycle.

Now that the loop is broken and Russ will not be returning, Lou may decide to spend more time with Sasha and Autumn. There don’t seem to be many good options available to him in the town. Maybe it’s time for him to follow Lil and begin a new life in the outside world.

I think Lou will stay until he can't handle the continual lost of Russ. Lou finds joy in the hours they do have together, though. Lou now has the companionship of Sasha and Autumn which will help him want to stay. In other words, all three "are in the same boat", so to speak.

I wouldn't want to live forever and experience loss of friends and family. It could be pretty lonely if you are the only one in your age group that is left.

I cannot imagine living forever. I would search for others like me, otherwise life would be like it was for Autumn, constantly having to move on, or never getting close to anyone