Daddy’s Girl

A while back, as I sometimes do, I attended the meeting of a book club. They’d read “Deadly Ambition,” my political thriller. Some of them loved it, some of them liked it, and one woman said she didn’t buy it…part of the storyline, she meant.

She thought the idea of Elaine, the secondary female in the story, going to such extreme lengths to protect her father’s reputation, was unbelievable. Elaine’s father taught her that there was nothing more important than respect. She’d never known him to do anything dishonorable, anything that would make her ashamed of him.

In the story, Elaine discovers that her husband is plotting to murder the President.  She has to find a way to stop him that would mean the plot not only didn’t succeed, but would never be discovered. Then, she realizes he intends to kill more than one person…her.

Who would put their life and the life of their best friend in danger to protect a dead man? Why didn’t she simply turn him in?

My answer was that Elaine was a Daddy’s Girl. The reader gave me a look that told me she didn’t understand what I was saying.

I asked if there were any “Daddy’s Girls” in the group. Several women raised their hands. “Do you understand what Elaine did?” I asked. They all nodded.

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I was a Daddy’s Girl. It shaped my life. He used to tell me, “Be somebody.” I hope I’ve lived up to that.

He was the best daddy ever. I will always consider him that, especially after discovering he was not my biological father. He raised me with love and care and dedication that no one could ever say was less than any physical father.

He didn’t donate the sperm to create me, but he did donate his heart, and that has made all the difference.

(The image attached is of a printing by artist Katie McCollow (katiemccollow.com) . She gathered the few pictures I have of my Daddy, and those of me as a child, and created this astounding work. 

 

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