If losing your youth and innocence was painful, J.M. Barrie lovingly and touchingly eases the pain and lessens the redness of the scars. This inevitability is handled with such grace and, yes, forgiveness. We never remember the moment we grew up and never forget the moments when we hadn't.
Best in his collection are Mary Rose (Hitchcock's fave), A Well-Remembered Voice, What Every Woman Knows and Dear Brutus.