Dear Inky:

I am glad you are satisfied with your grandfather’s inheritance choice! Your father’s allowance, I didn’t fully understand. Your last two lines- hilarious, that’s the wit in your writing that I referred to.

You wrote that you “think/ suspect that he knows I don’t need him”- it is most difficult for a child (of any age) to read the parent’s mind, more so than of strangers. It is so because of the emotional investment/ lack of objectivity. If you got to live in his head, you may be very surprised.

You wrote: “Dad doesn’t think anyone in the family, sister and step-siblings (except me, apparently) can make it ‘in the real world'” – are you referring to the allowance thing?

anita