Just Plain Bill
“Which wife did you love the best?”
When my youngest
daughter was three, we were walking three blocks back from the neighborhood
donut shop. When we stopped at the first corner, she turned and asked me the
following question: “Daddy, which wife did you love the best?”
Well, since I was
now married for the third time (she was the offspring of my second marriage) I
wondered what the most sensitive and truthful answer would/could/should be. I
hoped to take time to think of just the right answer…but you know the patience level
of a three-year old.
Trying my best to
distract my daughter by commenting on a passing dog – she loves dogs – I came
up with the following: “The one to whom I was married at the time was the one I
loved most.”
My daughter paused,
thought my reply through for just a minute, and then took up interest in that
dog that had given me a few seconds to think. The question never came up again.
Phew!
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