در عین حال، از کاری که انجام داده بودم می‌دانستم که اگر پسرم هر کدام از مشکلاتی را که می‌خواستیم آزمایش کنیم می‌داشت، که در نهایت هویت او را تشکیل می‌داد، و اگر هویت او باشند، هویت من نیز خواهند شد، که آن بیماری قرار است به محض تشخیص، شکل کاملا متفاوتی به خود بگیرد. 
And yet, I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, that those would ultimately be his identity, and if they were his identity, they would become my identity, that that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded. 