Replay

When my little girl was four, she would ask me for the first time, what was the best thing that happened to you, ever…

And you expect me now to write, it was you, girlie.

She expected me to say something like that big ice cream sundae, my parents bought me on a hot summer day when I was about your age.

But that real best thing that happened to me was the education I could get which led to a life led in independence and some freedom. And I told my girl so.