In fact, whenever Welch visits Bulluck in Tennessee, she inevitably finds someone else visiting at the same time.
"Oh, he gets obsessed with people but he eventually finds someone else," Prager told me with a hint of relief, perhaps at the fact that he was no longer Ford's target.
You refer, in the story, to Marie's daughters — to her telling them stories, years later, about Walter Hartnett, so clearly she survives this grief and even, as Gabe predicts at the end of the story, finds someone else to love her.
Every time Cairney is told to take over the decks she finds someone else already there, before she finally finds a slot, while Hall's 4am sunrise billing on Saturday morning is mysteriously transferred at the last minute to Sunday, with a second set pencilled in elsewhere.
The virus replicates in the gut for a few weeks, without doing that particular host any harm, and is eventually shed back into the sewage system where it can circulate until it finds someone else to infect.
Meanwhile, Mac suggests to Sue that she finds someone else to love.
