Laurel Dubois

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**Laurel Dubois** was the biological mother of Randall Pearson who had died of an aggressive terminal tumor in 2015 at her girlhood lake house with her longtime boyfriend at her side. Her final moments were of grown illegitimate son who has now inherited her family home.

## History

William moved to Pittsburgh in order to help his ailing mother Dorothy, and that's where he met Randall's biological mother, Laurel, on a bus.

After William's mother passes away, Laurel gets him into the drug world and he becomes addicted to heroin. Sometime right after Randall's birth, Laurel had a heroin overdose. William calls for paramedics to help, but after multiple attempts to resuscitate Laurel, the paramedics assume she is dead. They notify William that they would call child services due to Laurel's actions which in panic, forces him to flee with baby Randall. Right after he flees, Laurel comes back to life, surviving her overdose. She was then arrested for possession and in jail for five years.

Upon her release in 1985, she decided not to look for her young son (who was now five) as she believed that she deserved to be punished for forfeiting her right to be a mother. She then spent the rest of days at her girlhood home and reconnected with Hai some years after his wife had died. They were together until she herself had died from the aggressive tumor she had with her final moments were thinking about her grown son.

## Relationships

#### William Hill

As a teenager, Laurel had befriended William on a bus in Pittsburgh, where she made love and she became pregnant to their newborn illegitimate son. She knew that he equally loved her, but they did not reconnect as their son grew up with the Pearsons.

#### Hai Lang

Laurel had befriended the Vietnam refugee when he saved her from "drowning" in her family's lake. The two then hit it off quite well and entered an intimate romance but ultimately separated when he told her that he to take care of the only family he had left.Years later, she met him again during her job. He was buy her side when she died of the cancer.

### Family

#### Mae Dubois

She was quite close to her paternal aunt than her father. It was she had turned to after being released from prison and told her that she had a child with a man who had loved her very much, and that she had no right to be a mother.

#### Paul and Elizabeth Dubois

Laurel's relationship with her parents was somewhat complicated.

#### Jackson Dubois

Laurel was really close her to her elder brother. His death from the Vietnam war was devastating for her.

#### Randall Pearson

Upon giving birth to her illegitimate child, her falling unconscious from an overdose afterwards had left her unable to know where her lover, William, had taken him. When she came to, she immediately asked where her child was, to which a nurse had replied that he was better off without a mother addicted to drugs. After being released from prison, when Randal was five years old, she made the choice not to find him, as she felt that she forfeited the right to be his mother because of her enduring addiction. Throughout her days, she never stopped thinking about him until her death.

## Notes and Trivia

* Laurel is revealed to be dead as of "A Long Road Home" shown in a picture alongside her lover William and newborn illegitimate son.
* She ran away from her family upon hearing of her elder brother's death.
* She was arrested for drug possession after giving birth to her illegitimate son Randall and ended up serving five years in prison and was released when he was five years old but chose not to find him, as she felt that she did deserve to be a mother.