“It’s a big magical world out there, isn’t it?” said the little red-haired girl, bringing a huge smile to her adoptive father’s face.
“It surely is, Summer, it surely is,” Daddy replied. “Why, you could start your day as a sweet golden retriever and become a beautiful little girl by sunset.”
“You always said I am your beautiful little girl,” she said with her big puppy eyes.
“Yes, but even more so this evening,” he said. He tousled her hair and rested his hand on her shoulder, and they watched the sun set.
(Thanks to Meta AI for a serendipitous mistake translating our selfie into anime.)
Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.
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