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These are going to be all over the place, just a warning.
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So I feel like Paterson has slight PTSD, why else would the two closest to him be concerned about his reaction to the bus breaking down and if it blew up. It also would explain why he doesn’t use an alarm. I feel like his routine is also due to this, not much can trigger an attack if you do the same exact thing every day. I feel like being in the Marines turned Paterson into the soft and gentle soul we see like Bob Ross. Paterson’s main goal in life is to please his wife and love her with all he can. The only reason he never goes and makes copies of his poems is because he doesn’t want to feel that vulnerable. If he ever got a phone he would only download two apps, Audible and a solitaire game, and use four, the two he downloaded and then the calendar and calculator. Laura would text him funny pictures and would text back “Funny”, “I like that one”, “Why would somebody think a dog would think that”, and the like in response to every photo so Laura knows he looked at them. One day she sends him a selfie while he is at work saying she misses him, and he wants to send one back so he opens up the camera app and flips his phone around to take a picture, it doesn’t turn out well, but Laura loves it all the same and teaches him how to switch to the front camera after work. I feel like Paterson is more of a cat person, but they have Marvin because Laura likes dogs and he isn’t opposed to dogs, he just likes cats better.