Life is change, Sola. It's the high cost of living.

[Sufferer puts both hands on Sola's shoulders and tries to duck down so he can look up and meet his eyes. Considering how short he is, it's not very hard.]

Do you remember when I came back? How I'd changed? How sad and lonely and damaged I was? Were you disappointed in me? Or did you understand that I had been through something terrible, and just kept loving me anyway, and helped me work through it so I could get better?

Give Johnny some credit, son. You did that for me; now he can do it for you.