"They are gone," he says quietly when he stops in his steps to prevent a head-on collision. Sometimes Doc longs for people who have been gone for a hundred years. But that is the price of being a survivor.

"You--... may have to make a new family," he suggests. They won't ever be the same as what she had. But they would still love her. And lift her up. And be there for her.

"You don't have to let go. But you have to move on."