" was drinking and smoking too much weed to be a good father—and to his credit, he knew it too. When I asked him to go back to New Mexico and give the relationship some time, he agreed. How selfish I’d been! So breathlessly, cheekily selfish! I thought it would be a month, maybe two. A woman had as much right as a man to explore the world and herself and her "

― Barbara O'Neal , The Lost Girls of Devon