Many of the story’s other main characters have died as well, though Pegge Begich is still alive, as is her son Mark Begich, a former U.S. senator from Alaska.

Mark married his wife Marilou York in 1978, and the following year the couple welcomed son Nathan. A second son, Griffin, followed in 1983, before they had a daughter, Chelsea, in 1988.

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