[That stops him for a moment and he thinks for a while putting his hand on her shoulder trying to by empathetic...his hand is shaking a little bit, he wants to help, he really does...but what if he failed again?
It takes him a while longer to actually say something, with his heart beating hard. He had an epiphany]
It just means you came a long way...one thing my mother used to say, was that no one has their light turned off. It's sometimes under some dark clouds or things block the light, but it's there.
If you were terrible before, then this life gave you another chance for that light to shine without all of that junk getting in the way.
[Al's eyes water, realizing, years later, what his mom actually meant and how much it applied so much to him, he wept very quietly, as he slowly started putting two and two together.]
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It takes him a while longer to actually say something, with his heart beating hard. He had an epiphany]
It just means you came a long way...one thing my mother used to say, was that no one has their light turned off. It's sometimes under some dark clouds or things block the light, but it's there.
If you were terrible before, then this life gave you another chance for that light to shine without all of that junk getting in the way.
[Al's eyes water, realizing, years later, what his mom actually meant and how much it applied so much to him, he wept very quietly, as he slowly started putting two and two together.]