Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.

Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.