(I couldn’t think of a good antonym for manipulator)

So, maybe I was a little too quick to pull out my cynical side.   

It had been a long week, and when I got home from work yesterday, I just sprawled out on the couch.  I was lying there with my eyes closed, not yet asleep, and my daughter toddled around the couch. 

“Kai kwi, be kwi” (translation: Be quiet) in her little whisper voice.  She leaned in and gave me a kiss, then wandered away again.  A minute or two later, she came back, said the same thing, gave me another kiss, then shoved a teddy bear under my neck.  She likes to sleep with  a teddy bear or a doll, and so I’m sure she wanted to help me go to sleep too.

 You hear, and expect, that children that young are pretty self centered–just that they only think of their needs.  But she obviously cares for me, and was trying to do something to make my life better.

I’m impressed.

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