“His daughters anchored his life and gave him the freedom to live it. Without them, always at the center of his being, his life would have been little more than a vapor.” (Epitaph of actor James Rebhorn, 2014) The person who knows me best – who knows everything about me – is my daughter. She’s 15 years old. She knows I will always tell her the truth, and won’t lie to her about anything. And I don’t. Like a good linguist, I tell her there are no bad words, only bad contexts. So she and her friends do a lot of swearing around me. I’m a safe haven for them. My nights are often interrupted by their group Skype calls where they are doing homework. They Skype me into their group chats to tell me funny stories or to share…