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I'm scared, Dad.
I think that's why I am so scared, Dad.
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"Are you scared?" her dad ventured.
I remember a few times when I was a kid and the waves probably were too big for me and I was pretty scared; my dad never said "don't paddle out there".
I've only ever been scared my dad was going to die once before, when we got him tickets to see Chris Rock at Brixton Academy and he laughed so hard I thought he might have a heart attack.
I realised my family were 'different' when, at the age of four, I was genuinely scared my dad would donate my teddy bear to the Sunday school of the church he was helping to build.
I could tell my mom was scared, my dad too.
I've experienced my dad being stationed during 9/11, while I, as a nine year old sat at the first aid building watching the news with my mom scared my dad wasn't going to come home.
I spent my teens reading up on Miami bass and still vividly remember the day the uncensored video for Ludacris's "P-Poppin'" scared my dad from the living room like a startled deer.
"If you go home to a house where there's 11 people living there because they can't afford anything else, or if you're scared your dad might do something to you you can't concentrate on a homework assignment," she says.
So whether it's the restaurant or the charity or the direct-sales business or the next book — there's probably 30 things going on now — I think it scares my dad because he's always been very good at one thing.
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