”Being a father was my biggest challenge but also biggest reward, and if you ever get the chance to have some of your own, don’t pass it up for anything.” You absently stare at some kind of telescope in a wall cabinet—you wanted to give him space to tell his apparently important story. ”Well they all grew up and went their separate ways and I was left to my work. I thought that all my worrying was over, they’d become capable mares that could take care of themselves.”