Linda
Linda is a Beta woman who was stranded on the reservation while pregnant with John.
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Spoiler-freeLinda is a Beta woman who was stranded on the reservation while pregnant with John. She never adapts to aging, monogamy, motherhood, or life without World State comforts and is shamed by the reservation community. Back in London, she chooses near-continuous soma rather than confronting her experience. The dosage hastens her death, which John witnesses in the hospital.
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