[spoilers] Harry and Ruth

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Yes. Ruth loved George, but not enough to marry him, I think. Love is not a mutually exclusive or an either/or emotion, to my mind. Love is expansive and loving more than one person is certainly not an impossibility, especially if love object #1 is not, or no longer, available. I think Ruth needed a loving, caring relationship after she had been forced to leave her old life, and George and Nico offered her that. She had to find a way to move forward and she meshed into their lives well -- they offered a supportive and very safe environment for her. But did she love George in the same all-encompassing, idealized way she loved Harry? I don't believe so.

What would have happened if George had lived and she had to choose between him and Harry? Very difficult question! I want to believe that she would have returned to England and her old life anyway. At that point, the guilt over George's death would not have been been part of the equation and she would have had to seriously consider what it was she really wanted her life to be. I really believe that life would have included Harry.