> "For ten years, you are your child's favorite person in the entire world. After that, children have other favorite people . . . But during those ten years, you are everything to them . . . By the time your children are eighteen, you've already used up the vast majority of the time you'll have with them." (Bloom 145) > "There will be a *last time* your kids want you to read them a bedtime story . . . a *last time* you'll hug your parents at a family gathering." (Bloom 65) > "Take a deep breath in, allow your mind to focus on the peripherals of your vision and think about how the things you have now are only once things you dreamed of having." (Williamson)