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My father nodded slowly. He reached out and straightened the red towel, which had twisted around my neck. His hands were black with grease. They left faint smudges on the cheap fabric.

The little boy in the blue pajamas—me—puffed out his chest. “I’m Superman. I’m gonna save the whole world.” superman 240p

It wasn’t a big smile. It wasn’t the smile of a man who had just saved a plane from crashing or caught a falling building. It was a small, cracked, fragile thing. The smile of a man who had no heat vision, no x-ray sight, no fortress of solitude. Just two hands. Just a back that was already starting to ache. My father nodded slowly

Then, the frame shifted.

He knelt down in the grass. The camera wobbled again as my mother adjusted the zoom, trying to keep us both in frame. They left faint smudges on the cheap fabric

And in that low resolution, that grainy, smeared, barely-there image, I saw it.