The smile a proud father would have as he gazed upon a daughter who just graduated high school and had been accepted into a very good private college. A daughter who had endured so much, and yet overcome it with a remarkable strength and self-confidence. A daughter who had every right for self-pity and crippling remorse but refused to indulge in such emotions. A daughter whose father had failed her, but despite those failures, she had become a better, stronger person than he ever was. A daughter he would love forever, across all physical bounds of the earth.
