Adopt a boy? Get a knock on the door from a neighbourhood boy selling cookies and develop a long-term friendship with him? Discover that in fact I've had a number of fulfilling hobbies all this time? None of these things are going to happen. Even if half of one did, it would even then be fleeting, a blink of time in an otherwise sterile and depressing life. Nothing can hold a candle to childhood. tAD |