What did you move, she asked.

Money for your savings, I said.

From where.

From the account where it was sitting.

Is that for my college, she asked, and I said it could help with college, or something else she needed when she was older, and she considered this with great seriousness and asked whether it could buy a horse, and Marcus coughed into his coffee, and I said, maybe a very small horse, and she grinned and went back to her drawing.

I want to be careful not to make the money the point, because the money was never really the point, not for me and not for my father.