Release
- Meridian is getting ready to leave her home. She removes her cap and tosses it to the ground, revealing "the soft wool of her newly grown hair" (3.34.1).
- Meridian and Truman embrace, and she leaves. Suddenly, Truman starts to feel dizzy and collapses to the floor—just like Meridian once did. He crawls into the sleeping bag and places Meridian's cap on his head.
- In this daze, he imagines Anne-Marion arriving here someday, just as he did with Meridian.