When I was little, I used to spend a lot of time making up stories when I was put to bed.

I understood Stephen's point of view because if you had been given a death sentence at the age of 21, would you find it easy to believe in a loving God? Also, Stephen's work was taking him into the depths of the universe, and it was, I thought, fairly understandable that there wasn't much room for God in his equations.

I felt it was terribly important, for Stephen and the children, to keep the family together.

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