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One evening during a telephone conversation, Gus tells Hazel that he tracked down Van Houten's assistant and got a response from a message he wrote to Peter Van Houten. While Isaac smashes them, Gus talks to Hazel about the ending of the book, and she tells him that she has written hundreds of letters to ask the book's author, Peter Van Houten, questions about what happened after the story, such as the fate of Anna's mother and her relationship with the 'Dutch Tulip Man', and Anna's pet hamster Sisyphus. Gus allows Isaac to take out his anger on his basketball trophies. Gus says Isaac is having a 'psychotic episode', While Hazel says Isaac's response to the break up seems normal.

Gus invites Hazel over, where she finds out that Monica broke up with Isaac before his operation when his other eye will be removed, because she cannot handle the consequences. Hazel excuses herself from dinner to speak to Gus on the telephone, but they are interrupted by Isaac wailing a song lyric in the background.

He expresses surprise that the book ends mid-sentence (the protagonist Anna apparently dies during her narration). Hazel waits for Gus to call her back, and after a few days, he texts her after finishing 'An Imperial Affliction'. Hazel, in return, recommends her favorite book: 'An Imperial Affliction', which is about a girl that has leukemia, but she tells Gus that it is not necessarily a cancer story. He gives her a copy of his favorite book based on his favorite video game: 'Counterinsurgence'. She claims to be unremarkable, but he rejects that. He brings Hazel to the basement and asks her to tell him her real story, not her cancer story. Hazel and Gus arrive at his home and meet his parents. Then one day, the medication she was given began to work well, which was considered to be miraculous. Her lungs began to fill with water and she was treated in the ICU. She tells him (through flashbacks) that she was diagnosed when she was 13 and went through all the required treatment, but it wasn't working. While Gus recklessly drives to his house, he asks Hazel about her cancer story. Gus explains that he never lights or smokes the cigarettes he puts between his teeth so as to not give the killing item any power. He then puts a cigarette in his mouth, which upsets Hazel because it has ruined her impression of him. He asks Hazel her name and tells her she's beautiful. Gus explains to Hazel that this is their way of saying they will always love each other. They see Isaac and Monica making out and groping each other, then repeating: 'Always' to one another. After the meeting, Hazel waits for her mom, and Gus comes out to chat with her. Hazel shoots this down by saying that eventually, everything and everyone will be gone and forgotten, and if that scares him, he should ignore it. Patrick asks him if he has any fears, and Gus states that he fears oblivion.

When Gus is called on, he says that he has been in remission from osteosarcoma after having half of his right leg amputated (he wears a prosthetic). Patrick first calls on Gus's friend Isaac (Nat Wolff), who had a tumor in his eye and now wears a glass eye, though he is thankful because of his 'smoking hot' girlfriend Monica. One day during her trip to the group, Hazel bumps into Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort). Frannie wants Hazel to make friends, but as Hazel says, the only thing worse than biting it from cancer is having a kid that bites it from cancer. The person running it is a man named Patrick (Mike Birbiglia), who had testicular cancer and is now divorced and lives with his parents, but is positive because he is alive. At the behest of her mother Frannie (Laura Dern), father Michael (Sam Trammell), and her doctor Maria (Ana Dela Cruz), she attends a cancer support group at a church called the Literal Heart of Jesus. Hazel suffers from stage 4 thyroid cancer and is always seen carrying an oxygen tank with a cannula in her nose for her to breathe.

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She states that she believes we're allowed to choose how to tell sad stories, and that although one can sugarcoat it and say there's nothing that can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song, it's not the truth. A teenage girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) is lying in the grass staring up at the stars.