"Oh honey," Laura sighed, but she was thinking on the same lines. "Well in a way it can even be a good thing you were so young. Of course growing up without a father is one thing, but at least you didn't grow up missing the things your dad used to always do with you, you know? When I was a little kid I sometimes really missed my dad when he was away from home several days at a time, and really often. He had a way of reading stories that Mum just couldn't do."