He does not look back. Instead, he looks forward. To a new life. A new beginning. An old name. He has faced the world a thousand times as Superman (his pieces of imperfection). It is time he faces it, for the first time, openly and unabashedly as Clark Kent (the whole that will make all the fractured pieces of himself beautiful and worthwhile).
Oh my, sigh. That says it all. Yes, this is an amazing chapter. An important message to all of us. We spend so much time seeing our imperfections, we fail to see the "whole" of us. Clark at this moment sees and embraces his "humanity."
Well done. Poignant. This chapter was worth reading the previous 21 to get us to this place.[i][/i]
