I'm so glad! You will really be in love with him after Townies. He didn't have an easy life in his younger years, but he somehow emerged from it as such a wonderful human being. There are a few interviews and articles online that also show him to be a man of remarkable character.
Yes, if we all treated others the way he treats his characters, it would be a wonderful world.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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