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'''Shannon Márquez''' is a TV repairwoman and the cousin of [[Weaver Márquez]]. In [[Act I]], she joins [[Conway]] on his search for [[Dogwood Drive]].
Depending on the players' choices, she may have an ex named Alejandra or Mark who she still talks to on occasion.
== Name & references ==
Shannon is named after the mathematician [[wikipedia:Claude Shannon|Claude Shannon]], the "father of information theory," and the famous Colombian magical realist author [[wikipedia:Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel García Márquez]]. Her and her cousin's names reference the [[wikipedia:Shannon–Weaver model|Shannon–Weaver model]] of communication, used in the fields of information theory and telecommunications, and the street name and number of their family's farmhouse, 100 Macondo Lane, are references to the town of [[wikipedia:Macondo|Macondo]] in Márquez's novel ''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''.