Hey podcast listeners, I'm Chris Morocco, the food director of Bonapete and Epicureus and the host of Dinner

SOS. Every week on Dinner SOS, we answer listeners questions about what's going on in their kitchens and that first hint of fall in the air means we're thinking about Thanksgiving and we want to help you out on the air.

Are you bored with your same old turkey preparation? Can't

figure out what to bring for your Friends Giving celebration or maybe you're

experimenting with a new cuisine this year. Whatever your Thanksgiving question is,

dinner SOS can help.

Email us your question at dinner SOS at bonapatit.com.

We just might feature it on the show. This is the writer's voice, new fiction from the New Yorker.

I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.

On this week's episode of the writer's voice, we'll hear Matthew

Clam read his story, Hi Daddy, from the October 14th, 2024 issue of the magazine.

Clam, a winner of the Robert Bingham Penn Award Award is the author of the collection Sam the Cat and

Other Stories and the novel Who Is Rich, which was published in 2017.

Now here's Matthew Klam. Hi Daddy.

My daughter was going on a trip to Europe that she'd been dreaming about for a year and planning for months,

with the boyfriend she'd dumped and then got back together with a few weeks earlier.

Lucas was already over there with two friends and as we drove to the airport I had the feeling

that her flying alone across the dark empty ocean was practiced for her real departure to college a month from now.

There was the sound of us not speaking as I drove, then the stiff formal quiet of me keeping

out of Leah's way as we parked and she hefted her backpack, 28 pounds of teenage clothing,

and followed me into the Dulles Terminal and up the stairs to the atrium with its soaring cement

columns and a beautiful pink sunset with

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