Unborn

Gale imagines Dawn as a figment of his own imagination as a sort of self-delusion that gives him hope. He feels that his life is boring, and that he has never truly wanted for anything material. For him, the beautiful stranger he met seven years ago was a perfect enigma to carry with him forever. The fake version of Dawn first appeared after Canada Day; during a thunderstorm in the early morning of July 2, 1999, he said that he would finally go back to the Old Port of Montreal if the rain stopped before sunrise. It did, and so he went and gave himself hope in the way he knew best: lying to himself.