That's so interesting! "...ends with Kit and Vivian on a bus bound for Disneyland [...] with Kit anticipating a fun day financed by Vivian’s week with Edward, as Vivian “stares out emptily ahead.” That’s it. That’s all." That would be such a different ending! I kind of like the darkness of it. I also wonder what it would have been like for him to take the money and go start a new life somewhere, like she intends to before he shows up on her fire escape. Slightly more uplifting -- we could imagine her going back to college or something -- but not fluffy.