Did I read that right? They consummated their love?
Your question, whether it's a joke or not, is an example of how misunderstood and popularized pseudo-Freudianism and the like have degraded eros so that it is indistinguishable from genital sexual activity in which somebody has some kind of genital sexual release.
As his words suggest, all the old drunk wanted was a hug, and all the toddler wanted was a hug. Yes, there is an erotic aspect to that, but eros is not as limited in its sphere of action as tawdry modern thought thinks it is.
Love was consummated, in a manner appropriate to a toddler and a derelict. There was a giving and receiving of selves and affection.
Our Lord, or at any rate my Lord -- I wouldn't want to presume, described his suffering and dying on the cross as a consummation.