The day Damien had been waiting for basically from the the time he was ten had finally arrived: his dad was getting him a brand new automobile.
And, what's more, his dad did something that he hadn't done for a long time: he smiled.
Something about seeing his son drive away from the lot with the car took him back to some memory from when he was a kid, or some forgotten wish from his teenage years. Damien didn't bother to ask, but he could see that his dad with overcome with some kind of emotion which broke down his wall of gruffness.
Damien really couldn't remember a time, maybe not since he was a little kid, that his father seemed so relaxed.
But when he thought about it, Damien realized his dad didn't smile much because work was time-consuming, difficult, and there seemed to be no end of it. That kind of took a little bit of the joy out of everything, but why rob his father of this joy, he thought.
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