 Renowned inspirational writer Peter Stowe is an old friend of Tom s from their college days. Peter has agreed to write an article for the magazine, but really only did so to catch up with Tom. With Peter comes an old manuscript of a half completed novel that Tom wrote in college. Tom initially wants to put that ancient history, as he calls it, behind him, but Peter convinces him that perhaps he should resume writing that novel. Tom manages to shut out as much extraneous activity around him so that he can write, but he doesn t know if he wants to do that to Eddie or if it is fair to Eddie. Finally as Peter completes the article, Tom completes his understanding of why he didn t complete the novel in the first place and why he doesn t want to write it now: he found other things in life more important to him, which now includes his life with Eddie.