Friday, April 1, 2011

Father/Daughter Dance


Medlar View Elementary School hosted a PTO Father/Daughter dance last weekend. Derek was a true gentleman—armed with his lovely date, dinner plans, and some cash to buy her a single rose and some promesque photos, set against a backdrop of tulle and twinkly lights.

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They say your father sets the precedent for the kind of man you'll marry someday. Ella asked me the next morning if it's possible for someone to have two wives.

I stared in silence as my imagination immediately took me to a vision of Ella at age 19, standing in her kitchen in an ankle-length skirt, cooking dinner with her sister wives.

{Panic!!} I snapped, "Ella! Why do you want to know THAT??"

She answered, "I just wish we could both be married to Daddy."

Whew. Of course.

Well done, dude. Well done!


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