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The girl heaved onto the bed and settled herself comfortably between her parents.
"Daddy, why are you shorter than mommy?"
Her father laughed and squeezed her nose playfully.
"I am not shorter than your mother."
"Yes, you are!"
"No. I am the average height for an Indian man. Your mother is not the average height for a woman; she's taller than the average man."
The woman looked at her lover amused.
"It's the truth," he said as he leaned over their daughter to kiss her. "And I love every inch of you that towers over me," he whispered.
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