Why Dads are so lucky.

I pulled this out of a fifteen year old journal tonight and decided to post it.  My daughter will be 21 years old next week so I thought I would remind her of a story.+++3/14/01I need to explain a couple seemingly disconnected points.Casey (my youngest daughter) will write novels or be an artist someday - I am sure.  She writes constantly, and she is only in kindergarten.  I find scraps of paper all over the house, and she will take books from my library and sit down to spend hours copying the words.  She is like a little monk scribe, preserving the world's knowledge before the Dark Ages.It is so funny to see what she copies.  The other day I found a couple pages about an annual spaghetti dinner, complete with driving directions.  I also found a page about renal physiology from a medical text.  Of course she has no idea what she is writing, but it is just the act of copying that she seems to love so much.She surprises me sometimes, and is able to form sentences and draw pictures.  I found her "diary" the other day - but I have to explain the other point first...I got a haircut a couple weeks back and it was a radical departure for me: most of my long hair was hacked off, and it was scary for Casey to see.  "Where are all your curls, Daddy?" she wanted to know.  And she was so concerned, "If your hair is gone, what is going to keep your brains in??"  She wouldn't leave me that night, and fell asleep right next to my head -...
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