Longtime readers know that here I refer to my daughter as The Girl. It’s a way to prevent my stories about her from coming up as the first responses when employers google her. (When she was little, it was also about protecting her.) She’s 21 now, and a senior in college, so the name doesn’t fit quite as well. But habits die hard.

In a more rational universe, TG would be on her way to being a literature professor. She has that kind of mind. She reads voraciously and insightfully, and she writes with verve and voice. She has excellent people skills when she chooses to use them. She’s poised in front of an audience, handling objections without getting rattled. She has a point of view and can defend it with evidence. And in my—admittedly biased—opinion, she’s laugh-out-loud funny; that’s an u

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