HEADCANON: 004 // HIS MOTHER’S NECKLACE.
( also big thanks to @leagueremade for letting me talk to her about this and putting up with me being high and emotional about this )
his mother was JEWISH , and proud of it. she didn’t embrace lots of things after lewis came back from prison , out of fear that he’d taint and ruin what she enjoyed. she kept to herself , didn’t show INTEREST in anything , but her religion? she’d NEVER let lewis have the advantage to ruin that. she taught leonard everything she knew , she told leonard to embrace everything that they were , that they had to be PROUD of who they were. she had a mezuzah , like many , that leonard thought beautiful.