He couldn't imagine Hope saying something different, if it wasn't so.

"There have been people living in the house," Hope said now.

"She looked upon you like a mother," Hope said to me now.

Those adults who still harbor some hope say two things are essential.

"Hope," he said with a note of complaint in his voice.

"Phil knows what it's like to have to prove something to someone," Hope said.

Hope said, "Mom was exploring right after we moved here.

'You're going to be the most famous woman writer of your generation,' Hope said to me, looking up.

"You are a 'professional fighting woman'," Hope said to me.

Hope said to me as we stopped and watched the sunset down there by the docks.