The terror and consternation of the Presidential couple may be imagined by anyone who has ever loved a child, and suffered that dread intimation common to all parents, that Fate may not hold that life...
All men labor under some impingements on their freedom; none is absolutely at liberty.
Graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny...
When a child is lost there is no end to the self-torment a parent may inflict. When we love, and the object of our love is small, weak, and vulnerable, and has looked to us and us alone for protection...