[ He lets out a soft chuckle at that. The sentiment is appreciated, but he'd argue there are plenty of people who don't like him, actually. Not that he cares about those people, but he does care about his own daughter. ]

Yeah. Maybe. [ On the other hand, she's about to enter a more complicated age, so he wonders how that might go. ]

In a way, yes. I just wanted to get away, at the time, and I needed a purpose, something to do with myself.