She flies with her own wings.

Maybe it was just the narcotics.

I drove my dad around to run some errands the other night. While we were at Walmart he admitted to me that he’ll miss me a lot when I leave next fall and that he and my mother had always thought I’d stay close to home and go to the community college. I was a bit surprised. Never before had he expressed this to me, and never had I been aware of their ‘plan’ for me. He was quite bitter about it actually. When I asked why he had never objected to or tried to persuade me out of my decision to go to Arizona for my studies he simply said, “I want you to be happy”. 

I was a bit struck by this. But I guess he and I have always shared a special bond unlike any other between the members of our family.