Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."Kate....

“ Kate lost a mother," I said, "but I lost a nothing."Kate doesn't feel that way," Jack assured me.But what about everybody else besides Kate? How can I ever explain to anyone what she was when she and I had no name? People need names for everything. I wasn't a relative or a friend, I was just an object of her kind ”

Hilary Thayer Hamann

From : Anthropology of an American Girl