She’s Not Daddy’s Little Girl Anymore

It’s more than a case of growing pains.

Photo by Nicholas Green on Unsplash

The last time I saw Maria, she had been the picture of class — at least as far as a cello-wielding, prim-and-proper teenage girl from the suburbs could be. The one time we talked outside of school was at my dad’s auto shop while her father stopped in to get an oil change for his Volvo.