How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don’t you think? Perhaps we did not recognize then, in our softness, in the ease of our lives draped in fine lace and pearls, how truly fortunate we were and how fortunes can change. Had I understood it, had I known that one can live with so much less, perhaps my Richard would still be with us today.
