ad astra per aspera

Waiting in the Donut Whole parking lot for Soloman and his parents to meet us Magnus asks who is going to sit in the front seat of our truck.  I say nobody is sitting there, who does he want to sit there?  He says Daddy.  He says “remember when daddy was alive and he would sit in the front seat and you would drive?”  And I say yes, yes I do and I cry.