In Robert Cormier’s The Moustache, seventeen-year-old Mike made the statement, “for the first time in my life, I saw love at work,” because he was reflecting on his afternoon he spent at the nursing home with his lucid grandmother, as she confused MIke with her deceased husband. In his grandmother’s confusion, she believed that Mike was actually Mike’s grandfather who came to see her after over thirty years after he tragically passed away. Furthermore, she commented that she had been waiting for the grandfather to ask for her husband’s forgiveness in her doubting his faithfulness in their relationship prior to his death and further noted that her doubts changed their relationship. Through these events, Mike learned that love is not a passive