Zzzzzzt! Clink! "Ouch!" I listened from outside Dad's lab. He was working on a new experiment. No one knew Daddy had started a new project, except me. Only I know when he is working on an experiment, because he usually works while my brother and sister and I are asleep. Whenever he is up all night, I know he's working on something new, sometimes even something strange — like the pink octopus whose ears were like wings. He doesn't go out to work in the morning like other fathers. Did he ever go out to work, like other kids' dads? I think so; but he does not like to talk about the time before I was born. Something happened. Something sad, I think. Except for us, Dad has only his work.
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