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Of course there's never an easy time to lose a parent, but what I'm here to suggest– not as irrefutable fact but as dearly held and hopefully grounded headcanon– is that Christine's death was Glenn's first major experience with grief and, more importantly, with not knowing how to grieve. And why would he? His mother is dead, he likely doesn't have any friends who have gone through this sort of loss yet, and Bill Close of all people is not going to be the emotional support that his child needs, not only because he hasn't been with Christine for a long time, but because he is absent in every sense of the word and as Glenn says himself:

So Glenn loses his mom and what he learns implicitly from trudging his way through that experience is that the normal way to deal with loss is to Not Talk About It, a lesson he carries with him into every subsequent loss; of Morgan, of course, but also of Nick. To the former, this inability to voice the immense weight on his heart in turn imprints a similar effect on Nick. Not out of any desire to do so! Nor out of a lack of understanding for what Nick is going through or will to do anything about it

But Glenn can't help Nick grieve, because he doesn't know how to, either, all he knows is Don't Talk About It. It's not for nothing that Freddie suggested in Talking Dad that he would have imagined the ending to Glenn and Nick's arc consisting of the two of them visiting Morgan's grave.

As for the loss of Nick (/Nicholas in a different sense) while the pattern persists overall, there is otherwise a very interesting phenomenon that occurs with Glenn, as embedded in small and otherwise inconspicuous moments like these.

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And that's that for the 2025 Sexiest Fictional Podcast Character Round Robin!

After 45 polls and 33,932 votes, Glenn Close and Spanks Sinatra end the tournament each with 7 wins and 2 losses. As Glenn beat Spanks on Day 8 (in our poll with the most votes, 2,274), Glenn wins the tournament. Congratulations!

The 2023 Sexiest Fictional Podcast Character, Carlos Robles, comes in dead last at 2 wins and 7 losses.

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