Yesterday Morning Conversation at the Residence Inn, Raleigh, NC

KATE:  Are you my father?

RICHARD:  No.

KATE:  Who is my father?

RICHARD:  Charles Franklin

KATE:  He’s nice.

RICHARD:  Very nice.

KATE:  Does he have children?

RICHARD:  Yes.

KATE:  Who are they?

RICHARD:  Katherine (Kate) Franklin Creighton

KATE:   She’s nice.

RICHARD.  Very.

KATE:  Who’s my father?

RICHARD:  Charles Franklin, and who would that make me?

KATE:  (No answer.)

RICHARD:  I’m your husband.

KATE:  (with a grimace, but joking) Oh, no.

RICHARD:  Yes, for 55 years.

KATE:  That can’t be.