Michael Fitzsimmons
How could Michael dedicate his book to Peggy Sue when it had been a dream? They never really got together in the past. Was that a bit forced? Or simplistic?
shareI guess they want the audience to suspend belief that she was actually there, and got to live out her fantasy with him.
shareBut she was there! You think it was a dream?
shareIt would be strange that they put in Fitzsimmon's dedication to Peggy Sue right at the end if there wasn't a reason. Peggy Sue even said she hardly knew Fitzsimmons, and that he dedicated it to her and "a starry night", which describes that night they shared on the blanket under the stars., seems to indicate clearly that she did go back to high school.
At the point in the film when she woke up, we assume she experienced a dream or some other out of body experience as Dorothy did in the film version of The Wizard of Oz.
But when they drop the book dedication scene on us, it changes everything.