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I worry about you, she says, how everything descends into technological nightmares and fears of an unknown regime.

I'm sorry. I am under a certain amount of stress, he says. He wonders if he seems to her like someone under water, his words like crystal bubbles.

I wish we had a daughter, she says, someone whose very voice could sooth you.

It isn't unfair of her to say so, she means no diminution of her abilities or how he holds her dear. It is merely a simple fact that a daughter can beguile a father differently.

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