No, it's not 'The Notebook.' It's real life. And it's terrifying and wonderful all at once. 

“The key thing to consider is that I am not a very good businessman,” he said. “I’m not really anything but a guy who was addicted to internet porn.”

“You’re like a stranger in the world at that point. Nobody has any expectations. Nobody knows your history. Nobody knows what they want you to do.”

"If you asked me 10 years ago if this was going to be my life, I would have slit my wrists."

“My passion for the last years has been my family,” Mr. Winterhalt said. “So I don’t know what I’m going to do as a job. I don’t have any idea. The world is mine, and that’s a great thing. Do I go back to school? I don’t know. That is a little scary for me.”
 

“Who do I call?” Mr. Choffel asked. “Everyone has kids. I know everybody’s in bed, so who do you call?”

Universal truths drawn from a single life.

My Life With and Without the Supermen.

This was my world now. My New York. My Brooklyn. By now I'd taken this route dozens of times. I knew where the stop was. And I knew my way back home. 

From Madras to Miami of Ohio, my mother was never — and always — home.