[An unspoken question hovers between them, one Nigel is torn on answering.]

I cannot forget.

[A beat passes.]

Every day, every minute, every moment of my waking life-- I cannot escape remembering. It has been that way since my birth.

[Living as a prisoner of memory.]

You heal through forgetting, someone once told me. You learn to forgive by letting go. There is neither help nor support for someone who lacks the capacity. Alan is wasting his time.