To Steph

The most important thing you would learn in the years to come would be that there is no way to be a perfect mother but a million ways to be a good one. And the witty nature of little Cadence has already started to make this living proof justified. This precious little being will be the flower for which you and Raymond would be the honey.

We may want to love , but think twice, human beings are not born knowing how to love. We learn it, over the course of our life, different kinds and stages of love. It is just as demanding to love without liabilities as to love with unconditional ties, as in a family. How can we un-obligingly give more than we take, and quietly hope for some form of return, if it ever does?
For a family, it is a life-long love battle not to be underestimated.

" They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers."
-David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993