1977 (#17) - The reunion with Marion, Nancy's improvements and Ron's company

While Ron is in the hospital, his mother Marion Reeves, who had abandoned him since he was a child, pays him a surprise visit. Marion, in a touching encounter, confesses to her son that she came to know of his hospitalization and all the events he has been going through in recent times; realizing that all his mistakes are are in fact a result of her own mistakes, she apologizes for all the failings of the many years he has been forced to live alone. Ron, despite his initial resentment, forgives his mother and cannot help but try to understand her motives. What matters now, after all, is the promise from now on to be close to each other. In the meantime, Nancy, once again admitted to the psychiatric center, shows surprising signs of improvement. Evidently, her time out of the institution, alongside Ron, Karen and all the important people in her life, has enabled her to establish the basis for a full recovery. And then there is the fact that Ron, urged on by Marion, is starting to visit his wife more and more frequently, convinced that even without Karen, they could rebuild their family. Finally released from the mental institution, fully recovered, Nancy can finally embrace Ron and meet Marion, his mother. Nancy's happiness, however, is obviously cut short by Karen's absence, whose absence becomes increasingly unbearable. Ron repeatedly tries to convince her that by now she has become attached to Chris and Snapper, with whom they are beginning a journey that will surely guarantee her a better life, but Nancy seems to be particularly affected by the lack of her daughter.