Very moving writing. I almost cried when I got to "He wonders if Sam will remember him." I really felt for him -- and it seems so true of Dean, even if he never "really" had guitar lessons -- that he would want desperately to be able to play the music he loved, but be unable to make himself practice. He'd have wanted to live it from the start. And the "eagle" ... You never say, but it feels like it ought to be a phoenix -- since Dean is recreating himself from the ashes of his own history. I really liked this.