Sometimes the right piece of fiction just comes along for us at the right time and it is always such a gift. I hope I managed to bottle just a bit of that in a more pocketable format ; )

Maybe his character arc is something best understood/processed by older adults, one of which I appear to have become?
I do rather wonder how this run played with the younger crowd. But it's too late now. They've made it, and they can't take it away from us!