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beautiful.
     
    “Morning Daniel, Katie.” Sally smiles.
     
    “Morning, Sally. How are you today?” Daniel asks, resting his elbow on the counter.
     
    “I’m good. How are you?” Sally leans forward a little and places her hand on his arm in a manor that is friendly, sympathetic even.
     
    “I’m okay. Today is a good day.” he smiles at her.
     
    “And Katie? How are you today?”
     
    “Today is a good day for me also.” I smile.
     
    “Good. That’s what I want to hear. The playroom are setting up for the party. I’m sure your help will be appreciated.”
     
    “I’ll show Katie the ropes,” Daniel looks at Sally who has her eyebrows raised and a smile on her face, “Nothing kinky I promise.” he laughs, holding his hands up.
     
    “I’ve heard that before!” Sally smiles, making her way to one of the rooms whose call light is flashing.
     
    “Haven’t we all?” I call after her.
     
    Today is going to be a good day. I can tell.
     
     
    * * *
     
    I watch Daniel with the children. They adore him and he obviously adores them. They hang off him, they sit on his lap, one little girl even climbs on his back and hangs around his neck like a monkey. All the while Daniel smiles and laughs and tickles them while still managing to be careful of the many wires they have, yet without making a big deal about it. He is incredible to watch. You know what else is incredible to watch? How all the females are around him. He has a lot of admirers on the ward. They laugh at his jokes, they look on with smiles on their faces while he plays every silly game under the sun with the children, and they all have the same look in their eyes, a look I am sure he is sick of seeing. Pity. They cock their head to the side a little while they talk to him, almost like he has ceased to be Daniel the man and will forever be Daniel the Dad who lost his daughter. He is forced to wear the title and he does so with a look of sadness and loathing in his eyes but a smile on his lips.
     
     Did I have that look? Was I always going to be Katie who lost her husband in a car accident? Will I always be Richard Blake’s widow? I hope one day I won’t be, that’s what has happened, it isn’t who I am. I still have my own identity, just like I did when he was alive.
     
    “Katie would love to wear your crown, Melissa!” Daniel's voice snaps me out of my daydream and back to the chaotic scene in front of me.
     
    “Katie would love to wear your crown.” I smile at Melissa, a little girl currently sat in Daniel's lap and grinning at me.
     
    “I don't have hair, I look so stooooopid with a crown.” she pouts.
     
    “That is where you are completely wrong,” Daniel tells her, turning her face to look at him, “You are the most beautiful little girl in the world, with or without your crown.”
     
     Melissa's bottom lip wobbles and she looks first at Daniel then over to me.
     
    “Is it true?” She asks, tears in her eyes.
     
    “It is true. You don't need a crown to be beautiful, sweetheart.” I reach over and take her hand.
     
    “But what about hair?” She whispers.
     
    “You don't need hair either.” I smile.
     
    “There is a boy at school,” She sighs sadly, “He told me I looked like an alien because girls are supposed to have hair.”
     
    “Well, boys are mean and stoooopid!” another little girl pipes in.
     
    “Lisa is right.” Daniel agrees nodding his head.
     
    “But you're a boy. And you'r e not stupid.” Melissa looks back to Daniel who simply smiles.
     
    “Ah, but Daniel is a special kind of boy,” I tell them, “Daniel is a Prince . Prince Charming,” I whisper. Daniel's blue eyes snap to mine and I smile and wink at him before continuing, “Doesn’t he look like Prince Charming? ” I grin.
     
    The girls look at Daniel who sits impossibly still for them, then turns his head from side to side so they get a better look.
     
    “Prince Charming has brown hair!” Lisa pipes up.
     
    “But