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"Marriage precipitates may well be a splendid new identity, but its price is the supplantation of "I.""
This is a succinct way to sum up what marriage truly is. It is the loss of a certain identity and becoming of another.

A love letter of a daugher to her father, she talks about great parents, who can overwhelm the child with love by such banal occurences as turning a newspaper or talking to the shopkeeper.

"The boy that he was would never know me, certainly, but more to the point, I would never know him."
This is about how the author came to realise that her father, was a different human being to her, with his own past and memories. Those memories made him what he was today and neither she nor her father would ever be able to know each other from their perspectives.