I'm sure you're quite capable of planning a meal which doesn't need your presence in the kitchen for the entire day.

I need his presence to drive them away.

Barstow doesn't need my presence any more than you need a beauty doctor.

She would soon have to let him go but she'd only do that when she no longer needed his presence to keep mourning at bay.

Not that she actually needed another's physical presence to hold conversations.

Just as a baby needs her mother and panics when she isn't present, we need each other's presence.

"He told me the future no longer needed his physical presence," Tandis had reported.

There were no words in answer, only a feeling of confusion, and Rod decided his daughter needed his presence.

And he needed her undemanding presence more than she needed answers.

Sometimes a man needs a woman's silent presence more than any words she can give him.