[roaddog727]

Gee.

Life sucks.

Now get on with the task at hand - living, not lamenting.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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.