I'd say she IS getting on with the task at hand: she has acknowledged her mother's love and sacrifice, and has searched out, found, and been reconciled with her father. All that, and college, too: that's a lot for work for a young woman of 18.
She's also doing something of great value, which takes skill, tact, and courage: she's using her writing skill and her life experience to remind the world that a girl needs a father.
A kid can thrive with just on foot, but it would be wrong to, deliberately, of set purpose, design a child to have just one foot. And the same goes for intentionally, with deliberate forethought, begetting a child half-bereft.
Some children are fatherless by change. No child should be fatherless by choice.
Perhaps what I wrote was a bit harsh/abrupt, however, my folks got divorced when I was 10, Mom stayed in NJ and father moved to FL. Father died when I was a SR. in College - I had (and desired) little if any contact with father.
Also, through my own accord, went to and graduated from College, got 2 master's degrees, got commissioned as an Army officer and am right now serving on active duty at a rather high level of organization.
So to me, it is just something else to overcome.