Although his father may have seemed like little more than a marionette, totally dependent on others, says Lee, that year the two of them became closer than they had ever been before, both physically and spiritually.
李鼎說，雖然父親最後已像個布袋戲偶，一切全都靠別人的手來操作，但他認為，無論是身體或靈魂，照顧父親的這一年，是他與父親有生以來最接近的一年。