Manifisto posted:

*nine more years have flown by, and yet at times they have hardly seemed to pass at all. there have been innumerable opportunities but somehow none of them exactly the right one. andrew has become a man, he's dating a wonderful girl and spends most of his time with her. moments between father and son have grown rarer and he feels that they are slipping between his fingers. he feels certain, however, that his son cannot truly become a man until he knows. he practices what he wants to say, inside. says it wordlessly over and over like a mantra. it will be a relief, he tells himself. at that moment he will finally be able to let go of what he has seen.*