10.
“‘I want grandchildren.’ Well, too bad. We can’t have everything we want in life.”
“My dad loved kids. Being a dad was all he ever wanted, and he excelled at it. I remember the day he sold our childhood train set — the family buying it came over, and he got so excited showing the kid how it all worked. He just loved kids.
Before he died, I apologized that he’d never had any grandkids. I felt guilty. He snorted and said, ‘Look, I’m just glad you’re happy. It’s much better for me that I have happy kids than if I had grandkids, but my kids were unhappy.’ I’ll always remember that.”
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