I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
Allegra HustonWhen I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
Allegra HustonThe most important thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky.
Allegra Huston