Yesterday afternoon I was walking down our back alley, following Reilly as she rode her tricycle down the street to the playground. We had already had our big reunion an hour earlier when I picked her up at school. When she saw me come in the door to her classroom, she had smiled in her coy little way and then hugged me like a piece of velcro.
Despite that homecoming, I had some doubts if we had really connected yet, if my the hole my absence opened had been filled. As if to put these doubts to rest, Reilly paused her pedaling, looked up at me, and apropos of nothing, said, "Daddy, you're my best friend."
What could I say except "thank you."
And after you said, "thank you" your heart melted!
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