Melissa: Hey Helen, Tom‘s on his way back from the Eastern Shore. He went fishing this weekend, so I wanted to come over and wish you a happy Mother’s Day! (Pause) Helen, who is Tom?
Mom: Who?
Melissa: Tom.
Mom: He’s that boy who loves me.
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” Thomas Merton