Life is like a drawing game you play as a small child. Dot to Dot, you draw a line from one number to the next. You have to wait to see what the picture will be. The picture gets clearer as you push the pen forward so that one day you can say,

'Look! Look at my picture!'

Tom visits the house he lived in when he was a little boy, and he finds an old newspaper in the wardrobe. He picks it up, and becomes that little boy again.