re: The Leftovers ending..

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If she went through and found her fam, there's nothing about her character that would make sense for her to just come right back and raise pidgeons.

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Yeah, living a solitude life raising pigeons was her way of hiding from the world because she was a coward and couldn't go through with it. She was ultimately hiding from Kevin all those years and had become his departed. He was continuing to look for her in Austrilia to make sense of it all. In the end, he told her that he believed her out of love and nothing else. The whole series is one big love story arc between Kevin & Nora.

The ending of Season 3 Episode 07 - The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother) sums up their relationship. Kevin is in the assassin world and Patty has him read the last page of the novel he wrote. He (and his twin ) realizes he messed up with Nora and he doesn't want to come back to this world anymore:

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But it would be enough to make his escape. It wasn't for another hour when he was a mile from the docks that his thoughts turned back to her. He imagined her alone. By now, she would've searched the house and found it empty. She had suspected it all along, and now she knew he was a coward. A coward dressed in the uniform of a brave man. Brave enough to cross two oceans and a continent to find her, to fight countless enemies, and yet in the end, he was terrified. He was terrified of her... To lie beside her, to be comforted by her as he wept, to show her he was small, for her to know that and touch his cheek and whisper words softly into his ear. All of that was a nightmare. All he knew to do was run. He took a deep breath of the air, tasting the salt on his tongue, and closed his eyes, leaning into the spray as The Merciful picked up speed and sailed for the horizon. He was alone, and all was well.

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