For your kind thoughts and words. You are both right and Oryx it is great that you acknowledge the power of paternal love. This is one of the many things I love about Arabs (I know you are not an Arab, Oryx) that they do value the role of the father and acknowledge that fathers can and often do, love their children just as much as mothers. In the west, there is a big problem with absent fathers and many people think that fathers are not important. They are. I adore my own and dread to think what would have happened to me without his support, love and guidance.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi