> I think you might be missing the point of the story. To my understanding it could have easily have turned from a rosy past to a grim presence and it would hav

> I think you might be missing the point of the story. To my understanding it could have easily have turned from a rosy past to a grim presence and it would have worked all the same. I think _you_ might be missing the point of the story. It "could have" but it didn't: the story was about he'd been punishing himself for 18 years but Really It Wasn't My Fault. If it was about a situation where he found out 18 years ago a benign situation wasn't, that could teach a lesson about misunderstanding history. Here, everything else is overshadowed by the fact that "You can change history", where history is how he paralyzed a women by driving recklessly.