Oh, *of course* Laurie should be able to mourn-- Andrew's loss would have been a crushing blow, and it's made all the worse by the fact that they never really had any closure... there were so many things left unsaid between them. So I genuinely feel for Laurie's pain, and see how he's trying very hard not to show it to Ralph for fear of hurting him.

At the same time, it *is* because I know this time around how fragile Ralph is that my heart goes out to him-- he *knows* Laurie is imagining what "might have been," and that has to be excruciating. And yet he continues to play his part as the strong one here, offering Laurie just the right amount of understated concern and devoted affection. God, I love that man.