It's all so heart-warming! The little twist ending had me overall enthralled.
Now, whenever I think of it, I'll picture it the way the manga version of "Kokoro" ended (6:56 - 7:22): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JBYNN1yzco
Author's response
Thank you very much! I've never heard of Kokoro. The idea actually came from the movie The Green Mile. The Native American prisoner, before he's executed, explains what his people believe Heaven is. So I went with that explanation in a much larger story that my friend and I have been writing for over a year now.