The Storm destroyed my world in 1999. [ And he sounds way more accepting of that than most people might be. ]

I'm surprised that it was his heart of all things, that survived the fire. [ Hearts are usually pretty cookable, or so he assumes? That's definitely a thing he needs to check up on. ] But that's truly some devotion. It's too bad I can't meet that wife of his; that kind of longing is an emotion I would have liked to capture on paper.

[ Draw it, he means. He's interested in capturing real emotion in his artwork. ]