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Solange and Laurie refusing to latch and crying extensively, Belinda begins having increasingly strange dreams and hallucinations. Laurie also grows more attached to Solange than to Belinda, and Norman begins to become more protective of Solange. Things come to a head when Norman is angered by a bite mark on Laurie’s arm, but Belinda convinces him that it was Solange’s, noting the missing tooth mark. Norman finally stands up to Solange, who spends the rest of the night loudly pleading for her death. The couple wakes up the next morning to Solange dead in her bedroom, and promptly cremate her. Laurie finally latches to Belinda.
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