“Back and back and back?” Jonas began to laugh. “So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?”
The Giver laughed, too. “That’s right. It’s a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.”
Jonas frowned. “But my parents must have had parents! I never thought about it before. Who are my parents-of-the-parents? Where are they?”
“You could go look in the Hall of Open Records. You’d find the names. But think, son.
If you apply for children, then who will be their parents-of-the-parents? Who will be their grandparents?”
“My mother and father, of course.” “And where will they be?”
Jonas thought. “Oh,” he said slowly. “When I finish my training and become a full adult, I’ll be given my own dwelling.
And then when Lily does, a few years later, she’ll get her own dwelling, and maybe a spouse,
and children if she applies for them, and then Mother and Father—” “That’s right.”
As long as they’re still working and contributing to the community, they’ll go and live with the other Childless Adults.
And they won’t be part of my life anymore. “And after that, when the time comes,
they’ll go to the House of the Old,” Jonas went on. He was thinking aloud.
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