"You'll read about me someday." I was definitely dreaming then. With no evidence of that ever being possible, I clung to that preposterous vision and with the force of those dreams willed it and made it happen. Not because I needed to be famous, but because I needed a world that made me feel uninvited to be wrong, so I imagined myself free, I imagined myself loved, I imagined myself... as somebody." Finding Fish a memoir
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
On Being a Girl Dad-3
My daughter, Azure, is a cookie monster. She will eat anything sweet and sticky and gooey. We have to hide cookies where we think she won't look and my wife limits what we buy for sweet snacks. One night when she was about seven years old, I went up to tuck Azure in bed. It was a cold night and asked, "Are you wearing an undershirt with your pajamas? Azure didn't answer. She had this impish grin on her face and she said nothing. On instinct, I lifted her rim of her pajama top to reveal a Snicker bar that was taped to her tummy. When I asked her why she had done this she replied, "Because I want to have candy bar dreams." I removed the candy bar from the wrapper and re-taped the wrapper to her tummy, then said "Good night."
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