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watched for 1st time; have couple of questions


what was the significance of that sailboat that he saw toward the end when he was on the rocks before he saw Jennie?

Did Jennie want him to jump off the rocks?? to be with her?

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No, I don't think she wanted him to die. I think he thought he could save her, but she ended up saving him.

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That was her sailboat 20 years prior. He arrives in a sailboat in his time and she in a sailboat in her time. She tells him he has to keep living, which was confusing to me because she had just told him his body was nothing.

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