My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
“My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.”
“We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.”