my little sweetheart

The Hero found a one-day pass on his bus seat. It took an embarrassingly large amount of explaining before he finally got that the date on that bus pass wasn't ever coming again. When it reached him, he welled up with tears. "If September 27, 2011 was only coming once, we should have done something special on that day." I didn't have the heart to do anything besides agree.

Later, he told me, tears streaking down his eyes, that his plan to be a superhero is botched because his brothers are telling everyone his secret identity.