OMG! I just want to say how much I adore this story and your thoughts especially,they got me thinking very much so.But its nearly midnight I just got back from work and I am too tired to form even a semi-coherent English sentence.but I will be back tomorrow with some serious squee-age and with deep thoughts. one of the most beautiful scene IMO: "Brian did buy Justin crayons once, though Justin doubts he remembers. Back in that brief period before Justin moved in with Debbie, when he spent every night for a month in Brian’s bed. He’d come home from Daphne’s one night and found a 36 pack of fat wax colors sitting on top of his school bag, and never figured out if it was the result of shopping under the influence of E, a touching gesture, or a barely veiled jab at his age and immaturity. He doesn’t mention it to Brian, but he thinks he might still have a couple of the crayons amongst his kit"