<P> Once their timelines converge "naturally" at the library--their first meeting in his chronology--Henry starts to travel to Clare's childhood and adolescence in South Haven, Michigan, beginning in 1977 when she is six years old . On one of his early visits (from her perspective), Henry gives her a list of the dates he will appear and she writes them in a diary so she will remember to provide him with clothes and food when he arrives . During another visit, he inadvertently reveals that they will be married in the future . Over time they develop a close relationship . At one point, Henry helps Clare frighten and humiliate a boy who abused her . Clare is last visited in her youth by Henry in 1989, on her eighteenth birthday, during which they make love for the first time . They are then separated for two years until their meeting at the library . </P> <P> Clare and Henry marry, but Clare has trouble bringing a pregnancy to term because of the genetic anomaly Henry may presumably be passing on to the fetus . After six miscarriages, Henry wishes to save Clare further pain and has a vasectomy . However a version of Henry from the past visits Clare one night and they make love; she subsequently gives birth to a daughter, Alba . Alba is diagnosed with Chrono - Impairment as well but, unlike Henry, she has some control over her destinations when she time travels . Before she is born, Henry travels to the future and meets his ten - year - old daughter on a school field trip and learns that he dies when she is five years old . </P> <P> When he is 43, during what is to be his last year of life, Henry time travels to a Chicago parking garage on a frigid winter night where he is unable to find shelter . As a result of the hypothermia and frostbite he suffers, his feet are amputated when he returns to the present . Henry and Clare both know that without the ability to escape when he time travels, Henry will certainly die within his next few jumps . On New Year's Eve 2006 Henry time travels into the middle of the Michigan woods in 1984 and is accidentally shot by Clare's brother, a scene foreshadowed earlier in the novel . Henry returns to the present and dies in Clare's arms . </P> <P> Clare is devastated by Henry's death . She later finds a letter from Henry asking her to "stop waiting" for him, but which describes a moment in her future when she will see him again . The last scene in the book takes place when Clare is 82 years old and Henry is 43 . She is waiting for Henry, as she has done most of her life . </P>

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