He would have liked me had he lived...

 J**** would have liked me had he lived and we had been the same age his mother said.  He would have liked my quirky smile, not perfect teeth, and that I am smart.  He saw people at their core...not the superficial. Apparently he would have 'seen' me and liked what he saw. He liked Mark Twain. He liked sitcoms from the 70's not the 90's and 2000's.  He was an old soul.  

I have known and worked with his mother since 2005.  She is quiet, nice, always helpful, always reading a book.  They are both old souls.  Until today when she said what she said and then was embarrassed that she told me, I had no idea that she lost her son to a car accident last year.  Pedestrian vs. car.  She thinks God took him because he did not belong here.  I said I didn't know that God would take him, but she and I acknowledged that God supported her through her pain and that He surely has him in His care now.  

I cried and she told me she was sorry she told me until I told her how happy I was that she did and that now I know about her wonderful son.  We will talk again about him.  I want to know more about him.  Something about knowing that he might have chosen me if we were in the same time, age, etc., makes me want to know more about the person he was.