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Admiral Dunfee is the former leader of the Graveyard. Nobody knows his real name, only few know his last.

History[]

The Admiral was said to have fought in the Heartland War, on the third side: the one that had to keep the pro-choice and pro-life from killing each other. It was this side that gave the idea of unwinding, which all sides eventually agreed on. He was revealed to be one of the founding fathers of the idea, and the Bill of Life.

The admiral had a wife and an unruly son, Harlan. Required to set an example, the Admiral sent his son off to be unwound. When the Admiral and his wife changed their minds, it had been too late. His wife soon left him and the Admiral went into depression for several years.

Their dilemma soon became a story told among children, albeit with some exaggeration. Harlan became known as "Humphrey Dunfee", and his parents were told to be psychotic. The father, the Admiral, was a government employee who managed to hack into the National Unwind Database, the parts department, and accessed the unwinding records of his son. With a printout of every single person who received a piece of Humphrey, the Dunfees apparently traveled the world to find and kill them for Humphrey's parts to make their son whole again. While this was true to some extent, the Admiral and his wife merely wanted all of Harlan's parts to be gathered in one place, symbolically making their son whole again.

The Admiral eventually set up the Graveyard to make up for it. There, he planned to let runaway Unwinds hide until they turned eighteen, or until they find a sponsor willing to falsify their identification. He ends up giving up his position to Connor Lassiter after a near death experience.

Unwind[]

The Admiral ran the Graveyard as usual, until the five kids who help oversee it are murdered. He enlists Connor to help him find out the culprit, and the two bury the Goldens far away. Connor suspects Roland, and the Admiral comes to believe that it is Roland as well.

The Admiral, gathering all the recipients of his unwound son Harlan, sends Emby, who has Harland's right lung, to the Dunfee ranch. Emby's disappearance causes the Unwinds of the Graveyard to look for him. A search party finds the graves of the Goldens, and someone suggests that the Admiral killed them himself. The Unwinds assume that this is true, and begins to really think of him as a monster. With Connor and Roland being nowhere to be found, they assume that the Admiral also did something to them, and they storm to his jet to bring him down.

Risa, who arrived at the Admiral's jet to bring him the aspirin he called for, sees the mob of Unwinds coming and shuts the hatch of the jet. Although the jet is impenetrable, an Unwind tore out the power line connecting it to its generator. This causes the air conditioner to shut down, and the jet began to bake in the sun.

The Admiral doesn't handle the heat too well, and he suffers a heart attack. Connor, Risa, and Roland take the helicopter to bring him to the hospital, where he refuses the heart transplant. Connor tells the doctor to do "whatever they did before you had a tissue locked full of healthy young hearts."

After the procedure, only 25% of the Admiral's heart was still working, which he said would do. Being too weak to return to the Graveyard, he goes back to his family's Texas ranch in the care of his ex-wife. On their son Harlan's twenty-sixth birthday, they host the party to bring him "together" in the only meaningful way they can, having gathered all the people who received a part of him.

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