As it turned out.

0I was on the road for two weeks, and when I finally walked down the familiar street towards our house I began to get apprehensive. I was afraid I had hurt pop by running away. How could I find the right words to explain to him why I went?02br
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00As it turned out00, it was Pop who found the right words, When I came through the front door he looked up from his newspaper, and a wonderfully warm and relieved smile went over his face. Then he gave me a wink and said, "There's food in the icebox, Danny" -- the words he had always greeted me with when I came home from school or play. So nothing had changed between us. He understood me, and my searchings and longings, so 00unlike his own or my brothers00.02br
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00Could anyone explain the highlighted words, please?0-