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June is the mother of the dead boy at the scene Bruce and Jodie are called to in Chapter 1. She’s muted but angry with grief, and she seems to know more than she lets on about her son’s implied autoerotic asphyxiation habit. Bruce, long familiar with autoerotic asphyxiation, picks up on this right away and tries to tease this information out of her, but she is uncooperative.
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June Character Timeline in Breath
The timeline below shows where the character June appears in Breath. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Pages 1-37
...inside, two teenage sisters direct Bruce and Jodie upstairs, hardly moving. Upstairs, they find middle-aged June over the dead body of her 17-year-old son Aaron. He’s hanged himself, but she’s already...
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June is resistant to Bruce’s request to look in the boy’s wardrobe and seems generally unwilling...
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Back in the ambulance, Jodie suggests that Bruce was flirting with June. Bruce counters by referencing a recent incident where he caught Jodie badmouthing him on the...
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