[Charles hesitates, trying to find the best way to explain this.]

The pain won't ever truly go away, once and for all. There will always be times when it hurts, but it does get easier to deal with. It starts having less influence over your life, and you get to a place where you can begin to move beyond what happened.

You'll never be the person you were if none of this had ever happened, Zane. But that doesn't mean you won't be able to move on from it, or that you're always going to feel wounded.