Past, Present and Accounted For The problem with the past is that consequences say, "Here we are!" in the moment of now of which we think that's all there is: the causality of connectivity says, "Cut the child in half!" and a lie becomes the saving grace of life and we are not ashamed. But the child with two mothers, father unknown, forces the revelation of love through a lie all can see. We should be so fortunate if our consequences came close to that -- a love that cannot bear losing what it has given life to.