You will have given her the last thing she needs to never see it.”

And my daughter listened to the whole thing without interrupting, which is a thing she does, and then she said:

“I know.”

“You know.”

“Dad, I’ve thought about this for four months.

I know she won’t understand.

I stopped expecting that when I was about nineteen.” She had both hands on the wheel of a parked car.

“It isn’t for her.”