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====[[Neil Pelham]]====
Carol and Neil had an affair early in their relationship, both of them were with their future spouses at the time. Carol pleads to [[Victoria Dallon|Victoria]], that she is not his daughter, however Carol struggles to remember completely.<ref name="16.12II">[[From Within 16.12]]</ref><ref name="VicPArentage">“Not your father,” Carol said.  “But I thought once that he might be.”<br/><br/>
“He might be,” I echoed her.<br/><br/>
“You had so much of him in you, and your power… for pretty much the entire year before your sister triggered, I was in dread.  Neil was too.  You-” she looked at Crystal, “-Understand, please, it was that I spent so long unable to trust anyone.  It took me years to warm up to anyone.  Years to get close to Mark.  But we had our rough patches, and then there was Neil, and I could trust him more easily because Sarah trusted him-”<br/>
[...]<br/>
“You can’t give me the one answer?” I pressed her.  “The important one?”<br/><br/>
“I can’t,” she said, tensing up.  “I can’t.”<br/>
[...]<br/>
“The head injury,” Crystal said.  “She really might not be able to.”<br/>
[...]<br/>
“Mark’s your father,” my mother said, to my back. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/01/sundown-17-1/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.1]]</ref>