My Daughter, Errol Flynn
- Grim Ginger
- Aug 12, 2010
- 1 min read
This last week my daughter decided she’d like to follow in my footsteps and try fencing. She’d seen it once before, and thought it was sort of cool. But now she’s taken at it with a vengeance. And she seems to be a natural. Her first bout she beat a kid three times her size. Last night she won two our of three bouts with kids her age. At 7, she seems to have no fear of the blade, great footwork, and an aggressiveness that I never really had. She manages to combine cute with terrifying.
It’s great.

The Zenith Chronomaster Revival "Shadow", ref 97.T384.4061/21.C822. 37mm microblased titanium case. Zenith El Primero cal. 4061 automatic chronograph movement beating at 36,000 vph and running in 31 jewels. Indications link for the hour, minute, and small seconds. 12-hour link chronograph. Black "Cordura effect" rubber strap with white stitching link and microblasted titanium pin buckle. Price: $8,200.Photographs by Tiffany Wade
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