Differences disappear when faced with death.

“I don’t believe that," I said, and he raised his brow beneath his shaggy hair. …”

“I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to…”

“It’s alright, kiddo. I’ll love you no matter how you are. No matter if you are …”

“I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days …”