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I thought I'd conned my father. Only a five-year-old could believe in the deception, but I reveled in it.It happened often, at least as frequently as we attended lengthy social functions. Looking back, it seems that we went to block parties and such a great deal more than my own family does now, but perhaps that's only looking through a rose-tinted lens at my past. Always, though, there was sun and lots of it. Pre-heat the earthly oven to ninety St. Louis degrees, cook children for an afternoon, serve sleeping. It was a flawless recipe for fightless bedtimes, and I'm amazed we didn't go out more often than even I remember now. The deceit was simple--when we arrived home from whatever event we'd attended, I feigned sleep in the back seat to force my father to carry me into the house. Sticky with my own daylong-games-of-tag sweat, I smelled a similar yet more masculine scent on him. My own odor, I know now, was virtually androgynous at that age. There was something about the lull of the moving car that took me to slumber (and would do so now, if not for the onus of being the person controlling the vehicle), but coming to a stop always woke me up. The deception therefore was not so great. But I celebrated it, nevertheless. It's only recently that I've come to realize that my father celebrated those moments, too. As we return from shopping trips or family outings and my own young man feigns sleep, I smile secretly, grateful that the pretense isn't so great as he thinks it is and that he'll be truly asleep again in my arms before we even reach his bed. 
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