"Do you remember the time you felt proudest of your...

"Do you remember the time you felt proudest of your daughter?"
"Violetta won a karate tournament once. And she wasn’t even supposed to be in the tournament. There were only 16 slots, and most of the girls had prequalified— so Violetta had to fight her way into the wildcard slot. Once she qualified, her chances were very small. There was this one girl from Connecticut who was just destroying everybody. She was really tall, and she’d already won three of the four events. The only event left was sparring, and she cruised through her first matches pretty easily. When she came up against Violetta, she’d already pencilled in a victory in her mind. But Violetta scored a point on her early, and the girl got rattled. Then Violetta scored another point, and her eyes started to get puffy. When Violetta scored a third point, the girl faked an injury, and her dad had to come out of the stands to convince her to get off the mat. When Violetta went up by four points, the girl just had a total meltdown and couldn’t finish the match. Now I’m not saying that we were happy the girl started crying, but we were proud of Violetta.”