But now our world is expanding again, as is Aiyla’s understanding of it. Recently she came to me and said insistently: ‘Daddy, show me your TikTok.’ ‘Aiyla!’ I protested. ‘You’re seven!’ She asked nicely about my social media accounts, so I showed her some tweets. ‘Six million followers!’ she exclaimed. Then she looked at me curiously. I could hear the cogs in her mind turning. Who was this man, her dad? What was his story? Where did he come from? What did he do that justified so many likes? This is for her then, and for you.
