They arrive back home on the 4th of July. Karen has come home for a visit and is pregnant. Kevin makes up with his dad. The last scene is a “soliloquy” about how that was the last 4th of July Kevin ever spent in his home town, and about what happens to everyone. The narrator tells that Karen has her baby and that he looks like Kevin. Paul goes on to study law at Harvard. Wayne takes over the family furniture business after Jack passes away two years later. Norma becomes a successful board chairman. Finally, Kevin and Winnie write to each other every week for the eight years after Winnie leaves for Europe to study art history. When she returns, Kevin is married and has a son. Kevin realizes that nothing turns out how you plan, but that his memories of childhood will be with him forever.
Original Airdate: 5/12/1993
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