As one mother described: 'I've seen me going three or four days without anything to eat.
He said the boy's mother described the doctor as "her best friend."
His mother described him as "a different person after that treatment."
"He says there's something called research," is how his mother describes it today.
His mother described last month's meeting: "They held hands without speaking for a minute and a half.
My mother described a typical Saturday night in the summer.
He was what her mother would have described as a good man.
Her own mother had described her just that way often enough.
Her mother describes the family as "just peasants from the old country".
His mother would later describe it as "a sadness in him I couldn't reach."