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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: Love Letter to Scarlett
Description: Two years ago I introduced you to my then 3-year-old daughter, Scarlett. My Valentine.
She was a late arrival in my life and particularly special because I grew up with all boys and had only boys, until she came along. She’s introduced me, for the first time, to the wonderful world of little girls.
Scarlett’s now 5 and I’m 65. She likes the symmetry of that. She tells perfect strangers, at random, “I’m five and he’s 65.”
I’ve taken to telling her that she’s my favorite 5-year-old daughter. She caught on recently...