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Dear Mamma, Where did you go ? Papa says you went to fairyland to bring me those white wings. Did you get them ? Are they too hard to find ? Can't you come soon ? I miss you. Papa too misses you. He tells me stories of lions and flowers. He says you will be back when I finish my cup of milk. I drink it and then wait for you. But you do not come back. I  cry. Sometimes Papa cries too. He hides his tears. He misses you too. Come back Mamma....I don't need those white wings....I need you to be here. Papa wants you. Your loving daughter, Emmy.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite. And He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hands be for happiness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, So He loves the bow that is stable.