An Uncomplicated Life Quotes

“separated by a thousand miles. Absentee love. The distance created a regret my mother has only recently expressed. Five grandchildren have grown up seeing their grandparents only for a few days in the summertime and on the occasional Christmas visit. Love was given and received on the telephone, in thank-you notes, in well wishes after graduations and traditional holidays. It was abiding but fleeting.”
― Paul Daugherty, An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter

“I was 24 years old when they moved; my brother and sister were 27. Eventually, my sister moved to the same town, but my brother and I stayed north, he in Maryland, I in Ohio. A family,”
― Paul Daugherty, An Uncomplicated Life: A Father's Memoir of His Exceptional Daughter