Wait, Meredith Quill was eighteen in the GOTG2 opening scene? Still a teenager. So she was still a teenager when she became an (unmarried, in the 80s) mother, too, damn. And that means she’d have been, what, 26 when she died?
That makes everything even sadder, and also makes Ego’s interest in her even creepier than it previously was. Eighteen is only just out of childhood. She never stood a chance. Goddamn.
[This bit of the script is from the “Reunion Tour” featurette on the blu-ray, although I suppose you can take it with a pinch of salt, Laura Haddock would’ve been in her thirties while filming the movie after all.]