Chapter 54. Lullaby

When I walk about, I introduce myself to both familiar and unfamiliar faces, and I make sure to provide a warm greeting to everyone. While everybody else is settling down and getting quiet, my father walks up to the front of the room.

"I am aware that some of you might not be familiar with my name, but my name is Christopher Romero. Because my amazing daughter Alyanna Hernandez never finished it, this pool house was never completed. When she was ten years old, she tried to prevent me from completing it on the grounds that she thought it was a waste of money. If they were ten years old, the vast majority of children would probably want the pool house, but no. Because of her intervention, I was able to multiply the amount of money I had already invested in this endeavor by three and give it to three other charitable organizations.

One was for providing clean water to underdeveloped nations, another was for constructing homes in underdeveloped nations, and the third was for