Dixon's

In Dixon’s “All Gone” and McNally’s “Andre’s Mother” the reader can see that love ultimately does not lead to helplessness because of the main characters’ many alienating actions. This goes against the normal stereotypes of love, where one gives his or her all and devotes this or her lives to care for the one they adore. In doing this they expose themselves, leaving you defenseless. Therefore, not letting someone into your life …

…have closure, to feel that she has done something for Elliot. After time she has feelings for someone else, never thinking that it would ever happen. Things in Maria’s life are now all gone. Elliot died, Vaughan stopped showing up at the station, she feels her time at the station is now gone because Vaughan is not there and the two boys were caught. Her justification for being at the station has been eliminated.