My Daughter Went to the Father Daughter Dance Alone Until a Dozen Marines Walked In

doors, that they had identified every child in that room who needed what they were there to provide. Sergeant Riley came back to Katie and bowed from the waist with a formality that was slightly undercut by the grin he could not quite suppress.

“Miss Katie Allen,” he said. “May I have the honor of this dance?”

Katie looked at him for a moment with the continue reading …