I was trying to get Katherine to settle down for a nap, after she called me up to tell me she’d bumped her head on the headboard. “Here you go,” I said, kissing the boo-boo. Then I arranged a couple of her stuffed animals beside her. “Sid the Bear will watch you. And here’s Cthulhu — he’ll watch you, too.”<\/p>\n
“No, Daddy,” she said. “Cthulhu not watch me. He –” and then she lapsed into a long, earnest description of what Cthulhu would do, of which I understood not a word.<\/p>\n
I hope that’s not a bad sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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