"Yeah, you guys got lucky there," Cal says. "You got to skip all the boring parties."
Cal was always jealous of the kids whose parents left them at home for the stilted social affairs that consisted of everyone trying to impress everyone else (and, he realized when he was a little older, everyone knowing that everyone was trying to impress everyone else), but he himself was one of the ways in which his own parents aimed to impress. Such a lovely family, such a charming boy, just like his old man.
He wants Dad to be President, of course, and he knows he has to put in the work along with the rest of his family, just like every other would-be President's family has always had to do, but he wishes he could just skip ahead to the day after Election Day.
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Cal was always jealous of the kids whose parents left them at home for the stilted social affairs that consisted of everyone trying to impress everyone else (and, he realized when he was a little older, everyone knowing that everyone was trying to impress everyone else), but he himself was one of the ways in which his own parents aimed to impress. Such a lovely family, such a charming boy, just like his old man.
He wants Dad to be President, of course, and he knows he has to put in the work along with the rest of his family, just like every other would-be President's family has always had to do, but he wishes he could just skip ahead to the day after Election Day.