It's interesting to consider how simplistically another child feels they can turn around what to them is easy...just concentrate, try harder...

As the child Maria, thinks back to sitting outside in the dark and freezing cold of a Scottish winter, besotted by the star-studded sky, I can understand the pain, and the tears of your having missed out on something so enchanting, and magical. That you shed tears when writing this, is not surprising.

Very special Patricia.

Until we walk in another person's hoes, we have no idea.