Apropo of nothing, Brin looks up at me shortly after waking up and says, “Dad, your hair is long.”

I ask if that’s a good or bad thing.

“Bad! It looks bad.”

Brin is holding her shimmering unicorn toy. With a wistful look on her face, she tells me, “I was dreaming of a dream.”

Brin tells me about the girl at the library last week who gave her a drawing. “She gave it to me!”

“Oh, yeah! That’s right, Brin. What was her name, again?”

“Screech.”