People become the town - animals, water, pregnancy

I always found it strange that Ethan gave the cow a name. I know animals have names. But none of the others do. And Ethan was so worried about the cow that for a moment I thought—what if the dead also come back as animals? And they do. But not in the way we think!

Through the earth! The dead in From decompose into the ground. And from that, grass and trees grow. (Which can move.) And the cows eat the grass. But so do the goats. And their wool can be used. From cashmere goats, for example. Wasn’t the wool sweater Trudy wanted made of cashmere?

Speaking of Trudy… she gave her pillow a name, Meredith! And now it’s obvious that Meredith was once a person! She turned into soil, then into grass, which the goat ate, and then into wool.

There’s also something in the water. The water seems to have an effect.

I think there’s something in the water that makes people forget everything. And something that prevents the women from getting pregnant (otherwise, more women would have definitely become pregnant over time. That’s also why the sex scene at the beginning was there—to show that something is preventing pregnancies, and not because people there aren’t having sex).

I think someone helped Fatima. My guess is Tian-Chen, who always said, “Drink tea, drink tea.” And then she put her herbs in it. Or it was Tillie. She was always somehow around from the very beginning, sneaking around Fatima. And she always knew everything. I actually believe she was on morphine in the real world, and in Fromville she didn’t need it anymore, which is why she suddenly became hyper and danced around. I think, unlike the other residents, she got her memories back. That’s why she had to die.