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“Okay, Ma,” he whispered.

“You know,” she said, nudging him. “Your father always said the strongest thing you could be was kind. He’d be proud.” clarkandmartha

Clark closed his eyes. Above them, a distant star—the one he’d never seen, the one that had sent him away—began to twinkle. But it had nothing on the warm, steady light burning in the kitchen window behind him. “Okay, Ma,” he whispered

He looked at her—this small, strong woman who had found a baby in a spaceship and decided to love him. She didn’t see the cape. She saw the boy who scraped his knee, who cried when a calf was stillborn, who needed to be reminded that he was allowed to be human. ” he whispered. “You know