[Booker returns the hug with a mighty squeeze - any and all of his hugs could be kindly classified as the bear kind. He didn't demonstrate much affection toward anyone so when he did dole it out there was a lot to give. Especially to his daughter.

Her attention served as a motor in the dam, but there would still be the cracks that got larger and larger every day.]

She would be. She would be, baby-girl you're such an amazing young woman.

[Booker pulls away and smiles with his usual sadness-tinted affection. It came with the territory of seeing your daughter turn into someone who didn't need her father's help all the time. It was scary but...something he'd been looking forward to for a long time.]

It's like you grew up overnight sometimes.