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“Daddy,” said Lo one morning as I was tying my tie and just about ready to leave for work.
“Yes?”
“Am I free this Friday?”
“Lo, you are always free. Free and easy.”
“I mean, do we have any plans?”
“Not that I know of. Why?”
“I have an admirer.”
“You have many admirers, Lo, and I’m your biggest admirer.”
“Depends on your metric for size,” she said.
“What does that mean?”
“You know that I’ve had bigger, right?”
“I wasn’t speaking of my anatomy,” I said. “I have to go.”
“But Daddy,” she pouted, “I didn’t tell you about Friday yet.”
“Out with it.”
“So bossy. I like it. Rrrrrrrrrr.” She rolled her ‘R’ with her tongue to make a revving sound.
“What is Friday?”
“Well, it seems that your story, ‘A Linguistically Mysterious Voyage into the Unknown’ got the attention of one of my fans.”
“Probably many fans.”
“And this particular fan wants to take me out.”
“On a date?”
“Yes, on a date.”