Then John grabbed a tennis ball, dipped it into the red paint, and followed suit.

            Then Bay created some amazing designs by shaking purple paint off the netted head of a lacrosse stick. I drop-kicked a pink-dipped football and nearly broke the garage window, but all in all it was the best art lesson I’d ever witnessed.

            Bay gained the knowledge that no matter what she chose to do, her father would find a way to support her in it.

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