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My dad’s always looked up to Ben, literally as well as figuratively Ben is well over six and a half feet and built like a tank, but a tank with abs and ht places

Muscles with the face of a rugged angel

And those dark, brooding eyes…

I feel a shiver et to see hih His picture anyway

Ben Slater is also the poster boy for the national parks service in the state I’ood looks He’s been the face of National Parks and wildlife protection for ages nohich et to see him still, even when I can’t in person

A brochure or TV ad isn’t the same, but his billboard near the National Park entrance is worth it That’s whereme

And I can’t wait

Sounds silly, I know, but there’s only one thing better than Ranger Ben in the flesh, and that’s a thirty foot high Ranger Ben s at me

He was supposed to co Ben, he wouldn’t leave until he found them himself

Dad told me he felt bad, toldkind

A girl can dreah

I irl like me?

Pretty thin, which I ain’t either Not that it should matter, but I somehow see Ben Slater as the type ofhis fingers

Short, curvy-thick college girls need not apply

“Well?” Dad asksinto e’ stops will you have to et here? Doesn’t sound smart to me at all”

Dad’s not so old fashioned he doesn’t know technology, but he is kinda behind the ti in that department

“I’ an electric car,” he continues before I can go on “I ive you a juo No, I don’t like it, sweetie, get a regular car as soon as you pass through a city, I’ll pay for it,” he says adamantly

This is why I didn’t say anything beforehand Dad was up in arin with, and I had to remind him I’m an adult now, not a little kid anymore