At first I was just struck dumb by what he said because I couldn't make sense of it at all. "I said, was your mother an angel?" says Tom. Well that was just ridiculous, and I thought ol' Tom was playing jokes on me, trying to get me to say something foolish. I don't remember my mam too well, but I knowed she never had no wings, and I told him so.

"It's ugly," Luke mumbled, wrinkling his nose. "It's afraid," corrected Anakin. "Just like you are. And what's more, it's alive. It shares a connection with us through the Force. The fact that it's different from us, or that you think it's ugly, doesn't change that—nothing does. And sometimes, certain creatures can be more attuned to the Force than even we are."

Neither Owen nor Beru could have ever imagined how Luke's arrival would change their lives. And once he was a part of their lives, they could never have imagined life without him. A series of brief vignettes, not necessarily in order, exploring Luke's childhood with Owen and Beru on Tatooine.