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Once Watney gains contact with NASA through the repaired Pathfinder radio, they exchange a series of messages in which Watney explains how he survived and updates them on his status. This is his final message during that first conversation: a rather terse series of greetings to be passed on to his family and the Ares 3 crew.
Throughout the novel, Weir makes it clear that Watney loves his parents and misses them, but he is self-conscious about expressing his emotions, particularly when it comes to his parents. Here, his message to his family is even more emotionally neutral than his…