Oh my gosh, that was depressing as fuck! I think Rooney has a real talent for writing about the intersection of friendship, vulnerability, hurt and love. Personally, I felt Marrianne and Connel as very real people, with a very strong, nearly impossible, need to connect to each other: they touch, turn away, search, come back, touch, and disconnect once again. It's a very painful cycle, but also one that is characristic, or so I'd like to think, of these times.