The Midnight Dancers: A Fairy Tale Retold - Plot & Excerpts
Colonel Durham said, when Paul came into the room. “What can I do for you?”Paul shut the door behind him and sat down in the chair across from the colonel. He swallowed hard, and tried to find the words to begin. He took a folded paper out of his pocket. “I remember that you were looking for ways you could re-connect more with your daughters. I asked my dad if he had any recommendations about raising daughters, and I wrote down a few things he said,” he handed Colonel Durham the folded paper.Colonel Durham took it. “Your father has how many daughters?”“Five. The oldest is thirty-two, and the youngest is eighteen. They all get along with him just fine.”“I see,” the man read over the paper silently for a few minutes. “Some of this I try to do already. ‘Speak respectfully to them.’ I always try to do that. ‘Listen to them.’ Well, if they would talk to me, I would listen to them.” He read over the paper and frowned. “This is a lot. I’m not sure if I’d have time to do all these things.
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