Donald Mecklenberg is the intersection of reason and faith: he's a devout Christian inasmuch as he was raised to believe, but his dayjob, which is still a mystery to me, is logical and doesn't have much in the way of scenery. He has a love of water and boating that he has tragically little time to express. He loves Louise (and she him of course), and is willing to discuss and compromise when she's in a fit. This doesn't mean he doesn't feel frustrated at her sometimes or like he should escape in a number of ways. Louise's parents like Don mainly for being such an unthreatening, stable presence in Louise's life. I don't know enough about Don's family to describe them in any detail.
Louise enters Don's subconscious either the night after his 'coma' or two days later, when she accidentally takes his "little blue pill" and enters Don's mind. I've got his mind pretty well mapped by now, and what she finds there will turn her from indifference into a warrior who sees a man worth fighting to fight for.
Donald is an Average White Male (5'10" and European ancestry), but where his logic ends his ability to read people begins -- this is a near-worthless skill in Louise's mind, however, where nobody plays by the rules of manners he's learned in life. The angel statues in his back yard are regular friends to Don, offering silent companionship and each bearing a unique name.
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