Years after his breakup with Sarah, he met one of his colleagues who told him that she had gotten back together with his abusive husband. The co-worker commented on the strange nature of their relationship and began to degrade Sarah. Ron defends his past relationship with Sarah, "Well...I loved her." Ron was only able to admit his love for her once they were no longer involved. His true love for her is further strengthened by the fact that it would have been easier for him to joke with Sarah's former colleague. Instead, Ron is sincere and firm in his feelings. Encountering this situation caused Sarah's memories of Ron to awaken in her heart. For the first time, he feels Sarah's absence and can say with certainty that he loved her: "In this way, I learned that I really loved her... I began to mourn her death, to wish him to live again, when I can tell him the things I couldn't know or say when he was alive, when I didn't know I loved