“She hates me,” I tell him. “She’s 2,” he says, ruffling her hair. “She doesn’t know anything.”
The first thing my 2-year-old daughter Maeve said when I opened her door this morning was “Dada.”
“Good morning, sweetie!”
“Dada.”
“Mommy loves you!” I said, pulling open the curtains, hoping she’d note the sun highlighting my form, the madonna to her child. “Did you get some sleep?”
“Dada. Dada.”
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