"I'm not. Not really." And that wasn't a sad thing. It just was the truth. "I'm what the real Cole wanted to be. Something better than he thought he was. Someone that could help instead of hurt."

The truth about the way Cole had 'hurt' people was something the spirit had tried so hard to impart to him before he'd died.

"He had a childhood. He had a mother who loved him, and a father who didn't. It — wasn't always hard. But there were too many bad days, in the end."