Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.
My Ántonia ; The Troll Garden ; Selected Short Stories (ed. Gramercy, 1994) - ISBN: 9780517100318