she replied. "He was once very proud of me. He is proud of you I corrected her." You can not talk about him in the past yet Thank you she smiled through her tears "You're very kind. But, you do not. understand. You see, he was proud of me once but not now. Now he does not want to speak to me. He does not even want to hear my voice. But, you see, I need to hear his voice. I. really do She held the picture of her father to her chest and closed her eyes. It was as if she believed that if she thought about him hard enough, she could make him appear. I quietly wished her good luck and left her in the crowd. . I completely understood the young lady's fears about her father's safety, but not her belief that he did not want to talk to her. As I said, when people are frightened they think illogically. And there are a lot of frightened people here right. now.