"I don't know for sure," he said, "but I can't imagine that God, who is so adept at linking parents with children, would so cruelly separate them. Perhaps it isn't anywhere near the truth. Perhaps I'm merely self-serving. I don't know, but I believe against all odds in exactly what you say." "You don't care what anyone else thinks, do you?" "No, Papa. I never did." "That can only be because you believe." "Yes." "And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful."