Champion of the World
“What I have been trying so hard to tell you all along is simply that my father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvelous and exciting father any boy ever had.” So ends Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl, an ode to fatherhood that introduced me to one of my first childhood heros, Danny’s father William. He was the father I always wanted, the father I have always aspired to be. Danny and William live together…