Learning that Tim did not have a child named Kathleen, let alone a daughter, was a shock. I had become attached to the character of Kathleen from this quote of Tim's, "I feel guilty sometimes. Forty-three years old and I'm still writing war stories. My daughter Kathleen tells me it's an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony." I can relate to Kathleen when she says that Tim writes too much about war, but maybe that's because I'm biased as I dislike war stories and movies. The sentiment of a daughter telling her father to write about a girl who gets a pony resonated with my younger self's wishes. Then there's the cute father-daughter trip to Vietnam in the story "Field Trip." Kathleen's curiosity with the culture and land of Vietnam but disinterest of the significance of the Vietnam War is innocent. After doing some research on Tim to figure out what else