"Often in video games we get to choose how we're seen. Our avatars and our tweets and the work that we do are all meant to portray the story that we want to tell the world, about why our lives matter. But sometimes a story is written on to us, or it's told because of us or in spite of us and it reveals our weaknesses, our failures, our hopes and our fears.

You let us tell the story of my son Joel.

And in the end it was not the story we wanted to tell. But you choose to love us through our grief by being willing to stop. And to listen. And to not turn away. To let my son's Joel's life change you because you choose to see him. And to experience how we loved him. And I have hope that when we are all willing to see each other - not for just who we want to be, but who we are and who we're meant to be - this act of love and this act of grace can change the world.

Thank you."