This isn't a fresh story, but it is one I think of often, especially when I see father/daughter combos enjoying each others' company. It is one of the brightest recurring thoughts I have so I figured I'd share it this time. While waiting for Old Faithful to amaze us, Kaila and I were taking one arm pics and eavesdropping on all of the tourist conversations from around the world occurring around us. Somehow we got to sharing pictures with the nice father/daughter combo next to us from Shanghai (she was attending Northwestern) and when we showed them the picture of the bear family we had seen in the Sequoias, his engrish got faster and hard to understand but what we got out of it is that he had a picture of a bear to share with us as well. He calmed down enough to say 'this is my teddy bear' and smiled the biggest, most precious smile he could as he turned the camera to show us a picture of his daughter. My annoyance at the multitudes of 'drive-thru' tourists melted away into a puddle of happiness.
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