_{[ Hobo chic was nice, but Kirk was sure he'd look nicer with a proper hair cut. But that was a challenge for another day, maybe. ]}

It's okay. I didn't ever know him. He's just a name on paper.

_{[ There's no bitterness there, just bald fact. He was a hero, but that's all he really knew of him. An image in a book, some glowing words on paper. It was hard to feel any sort of love for something like that. ]}

Hopefully we have a bit more in common than crap childhoods and questionable middle names.