That made him smile. "And I'd like for you to know Alex, too," he said, sadness tinging his voice. "Every connection to home that I can maintain for him... I'm going to. Yeah, he's not going to exist there, obviously not. But I still want him to know about it, to know about the people from there that were here and that were my friends."
A sigh. "But I'm also going to want him to know them as they are back home, and some of our situations aren't so... well... friendly. I mean, case in point. There's gonna be a day where I have to tell him that his mother and I aren't exactly BFFs."