It had been a wonderful, ideal life for three years.
"I used to picture an ideal life, and it would be like a dream," the daughter thinks.
"They had in her view the ideal life - were looked after and could be themselves."
I know of few civilizations that came so close to providing an ideal life for their people.
Having experienced so much things, they finally find a personal, mature way to live an ideal life.
It was an ideal life for such a man.
"We thought the ideal life would be to live it out together, with horses," he said.
Such an ideal life is a wonder that has passed beyond our ken.
That seems to me to be the ideal life, really.
"For a lot of people, the ideal life is one where they'd never have to do anything but research."