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- Douglas knew he was going to die. He did his best to shield little Emily, but the truth came out in the end. As Emily sobs for him, she now realizes that she has lost her only living parent, as her mother died when she was four years old.
- Aunt Elizabeth punishes Emily by locking her in a cold, dark room. This is right after she moves to New Moon and Elizabeth demands she conforms to the Murray's rigid standards. Luckily, Emily finds a friend in Cousin Jimmy, who keeps an eye on her.
- Emily's first day at school has all the kids treat her horribly for her relationship with the Murrays, with Ilse stalking her afterwards and attacking her.
- Aunt Elizabeth also punishes Emily for remembering Douglas fondly, like keeping her hairstyle because he liked it that way, and insists that everything she doesn't like in Emily is In the Blood as Douglas was quiet the outlier too, even as Juliet loved him anyway.
- Ilse's backstory. She never knew her mother and was so upset that her father never spoke of her (misattributing it to unwillingness rather than trauma) that she ran away from home. When Ilse and Dr. Burnley reunite, there's a Big Damn Hug between the two and he finally tells her the truth.
- When Ilse tells Emily that Teddy is engaged to someone else, Emily freaks out and tries to speak to him, but by then he has already left the country. Having loved him since she was a little girl, Emily cries over being heartbroken. Luckily the engagement falls and Emily and Teddy end up together in the end.
- The death of Francis Carpenter; the man relapses and is confined to his bed, and as Dr. Burnley tends to him Emily keeps him company. She calms him, soothes him, reads him a poem. When browsing through his mementos, Emily finds the first poem she ever submitted to him, meaning that he believed in her all along. Francis passes away; Emily is left mourning him as it snows.
- Emily's grief over Francis dying. She can't eat, sleep or work properly, and her Aunts and Jimmy are worried for her. Francis was the father she never had and she was able to see him in his last moments, learning that he treasured her poem for years.
