What happens in The Road is every father’s worst nightmare faced down with love, courage and inextinguishable hope
Boy: What would you do if I died?
Man: If you died I would want to die too.
Boy: So you could be with me?
Man: Yes. So I could be with you.
With weeping comes release. I think that, for men, crying is less a response to pain or frustration than a necessary outpouring of suppressed feeling. Men allow themselves to cry only after the fact; tears are an expression not only of the tragic but of having come through tragedy. To weep, then, is life-affirming and spiritually restorative, one might even say that all crying contains within it an element of joy.
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