You know so many things intuitively, understand the kids’ br problems easily, you always manage to explain problems br with feelings, when I felt sidelined in their lives you told me br to watch out for the surprise – and there it was, a small br liqueur glass with sweet Muscadel br br Your lopsided smile contritely confessing you knew you br were in the wrong, but we can be friends again because br I waited and did not say anything – when I explained and br could not stop to indicate exactly what was wrong with the br scenario of meeting fanatics br br Wanting to take over one’s life and take charge of one’s br dreams, and you forbade me to go on unless I took positive br steps to put those fanatics out of my life, I felt the loss of free- br dom – then rejoiced because having the choice to be emo- br tionally exploited by fanatics and br br To be cherished and over-protected by you; I choose YOU br all the time, thank you for being the strict, logical, pragmatic, br loving disciplinarian that you are, saving me from br a million faux pas…br br Margaret Alicebr br