“OK — now, Daddy?” she asked eagerly.
“You really want this?”
She nodded vigorously.
“Please,” she begged, drawing out the “ee” vowel long and whiney, like a child.
I tilted my head down in consent, like Zeus granting the wish of Thetis as she pleaded at his knees for him to grant her favor, and Lo’s eyes lit up and she kissed me on the cheek…