Adalyn climbed up her father’s lap for a game of “hop, hop to Boston”. Her father was the strongest man alive and she loved him “the morst”.

“Watch out my little girl!” he sang as she squealed.

But she never fell in: she flew from his lap all grown up.

Damian Sebouhian is a freelance writer, playwright and English tutor living in Northern California. He misses the rain.