Sing for Absolution

In the evening, while they sit on the couch in their living room, that she lies down and lets her head rest on his laps, he begins to stroke her hair slowly and hum her lowly a for long ago forgotten air.

Thus, without opening her eyes, she smiles and murmurs "I love you."

She will never know how much he needs her and that is from her lips that he receives his absolution for all his sins.