Better or Worse

 “Mum, do you remember our holiday?”
“No.”
“Dad was re-enacting a commando beach assault?”
“No.”
“He said you'd climb the cliff easily?”
“No”
“But then you didn’t?”
“No.”
“Then the tide came in because, Dad said, the tide tables were wrong?”
“No.”
“Then Dad wouldn't let no Johnny-come-lately helicopter winch-man put a harness on his wife?”
“No.”
 “And you fell fifty feet onto the rocks in the raging sea?”
“No.”
“They got the lifeboat to rush you to hospital for an emergency operation?”
“No”
“And Dad had that argument with the brain surgeon?”
"No."
“Anyway, Dad says you're better now.”
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