Fluke

Gale's pursuit of meaning manifests in his writing by beginning to reflect his own life more explicitly. The very text the reader is looking at is ostensibly Gale's own autobiography / journal / memoir. What ultimately helps him find meaning is realizing the subjectivity of all experience, notably through the realization that the Dawn he reunited with never existed except as a figment of his imagination. All that time, he imagined a girl who looked exactly like the one who he did meet seven years ago.