In that, they'll find common ground, a rare sort these days, even when people around him try, against his better judgement, to find it with him. He'll admit to a certain curiosity about this encounter, but at arm's length or better, though he can't argue the man's point.

"Left as a memory, or left with only memories, as fleeting as they are, I would also choose that over the alternative. In the end, it's all that we have."