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did you mean: GET OUT OF MY SWAMP

   “ Me? ”

 A bright smile  stretched across  her features as she  wrapped her little  arms around her father’s neck. She liked spending time with him, liked  these little  conversations where  she didn’t have  to share his attention  with anyone else.

   “ I wanted you too, Daddy! You’re the best daddy in the world. ”

      ‟ You. ”

  His arms wrapped around her immediately, drawing her into a tight embrace as   her words sank in. Coming from anyone else they might have indeed been a   compliment, but hearing words of such praise and approval from his daughter   herself was almost overwhelming. She was the one person in this world whose   opinion mattered most, and Jack would spend the rest of his life continuing to   earn it.

  “ Mum says that all the time.  Well, actually,  she says we should      never settle at ALL. She always tells me that the world will try to      underestimate me  but that I should always  prove them wrong.      Is that what you do, Aunt Anamaria? ”

     “ I was trying to find the hiding places daddy told me about.         He said he used to hide around the Cove all the time. ”

     “ I see. ”

  She couldn’t help  the slightly  amused smile  upon her  lips as   she nodded in understanding. The similarities between Emma   and her father were  so glaringly obvious at times that Elizabeth   wasn’t sure whether to feel concerned or entertained.