And she's made me tell it every night since.
I know from experience that it's not the story that counts. It's lying back in a warm cocoon of blankets, feeling the chilly air on your face and your father's weight beside you, using his arm as a pillow and drifting off to sleep to the sound of his voice. If there is a Platonic ideal of contentment, that feeling is the closest I ever got to it. If I have to tell the same horrifyingly dull story to my daughter at the end of each night so that she can trace out her own contentment asymptote, so be it.
Besides, the story's bound to get better with practice.
Welcome to the Carnival. Take your time and browse around. We'll see you next week.
*Pun not only intended but chuckled over far more than absolutely necessary.
**She gets the PowerPuff Girls and all the Bongo Comics titles.
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