Page 76 has every layer of notes: Eric’s pencil underlines a sentence, blue and black shows his first round of notes with Jen, then green and orange, and, lastly, purple and red shows their last round. In the first round (blue and black), Jen points out the sentence that Eric underlined and asks why he did so. Jen thinks its interesting how the book has become a scrapbook of his younger selves and how distant he is from them. Eric disagrees but Jen still prefers to think about it as distance:

The further I get from the little girl who did what everyone told her, the better.

Jen is going through some big changes and is questioning all the decisions she has taken. She is in an awkward moment because she cannot free herself from her parents’ wishes and she feels like she wasted time with a meaningless relationship. She rejects her past and the negatives from it have begun to overshadow the positives. Eric, on the other hand, sees all his past selves as himself. This theme of “generations” is recurrent in the novel and especially appealing to Eric, as seen on page 9.

On the second round of notes they talk about the scrapbook idea once again. Eric writes:

This is a scrapbook of you + me, too.

Jen agrees and Eric states that he will never let go of the book. This indicates Eric’s attachment both to his annotation and work, but also to Jen and their written relationship.

The third round of notes, in purple and red, precede a note by Jen that says:

Interesting – affection between them is immediately apparent – even in such a strange context.

In purple Jen come back to the note and writes:

you never got my hint here. I kept waiting for you to say something.

I got it. I just didn’t know what to say.

This set of notes contrasts their level of trust and affection in the beginning and end of their investigation/written relationship.