This is what it's like to be held by a mother. As a baby, his only affection would have come from a wet nurse, which is hardly the same thing. He wraps his arms around her in return, so that she will know what it's like to be held by a son. He doesn't even care what other people in the market might think about a grown man hugging someone like this. He deserves this.

"So much has happened since then. Perhaps one day I will have told it all."