at the bottom of the stack vanessa finds a piece somehow different from the others the paper a little more worn a little more well-used she picks it up and flips through five sheets of paper crinkled and worn she has the feeling the sense without any reason that this had once been treasured that this was something which dc had really loved once maybe when he was younger a teenager a college student once this had meant something to him she looks around the basement joanna is going up the steps with the slim pile of stories they 've decided to keep .