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There are many instances in the novel when Dana saves his life, each time she is brought back to the past she is saving him. It isn’t until the second time she goes back that she realizes that Rufus is not just some boy she continuously is saving, but her own ancestor (28). As time goes on, Dana constantly is thrown back and forth through time, saving his life once there, and then risking hers to go home. Because they are family, she feels a special bond to Rufus; she admits that she cannot remain upset with him, regardless of his appalling actions. “However little sense it made, I cared. I must have. I kept forgiving him for things” (180). At this point, Dana has just talked to Rufus about him not sending Dana’s letters to Kevin. Although she is furious at what he had been hiding form her, it’s impossible for her to stay mad at him. It’s impossible because he is family and in the end they really do care and posses love for each