And last but certainly not least, Mari's dad was released from the hospital earlier than expected because he's bounced back from his surgery very quickly. This doesn't surprise me too much, he seems to be in pretty good shape. That's two surgeries in the family within a month!
Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
—Edmund Burke