

He enjoys looking at photo albums with Ruby and communing over their shared loss of Klara, who died when Ruby was still a baby. Years after Simon and Klara’s deaths, he reconnects with Ruby and Raj over Thanksgiving, a few days before his predicted death date. Daniel goes on to become a military doctor, where he is responsible for determining whether young enlistees are healthy enough to go to war. When Simon and Klara choose to run away from home, Daniel is hurt, particularly because this forces him to return home and take care of their mother Gertie. Unlike Simon and Klara, Daniel refuses to believe that the woman’s prediction is real and he develops a philosophy that people create their future through personal choice, not fate. He is 11 years old when the siblings visit a local fortune teller, who tells him he will die at 48. Daniel is the second oldest Gold sibling, after Varya.
