could you comment on advantages and disadvantages on being john cheever's daughter? i think you can hear the questions. my daughter is in the audience. i'm not going to tell you she is, of course, just know as i answer this question, so, you know, how can one talk about one's parents in two minutes. you're right. there were many advantages and many disadvantages. let me just say that the advantages people think i had are not the ones i had. my father did not want me to be a writer, did not want any of us to write, he considered a miserable life. i couldn't agree with him more till i was about 35, right, but i saw, you know, and for a long time i learned nothing from him and he was very careful not to teach me anything. once when i was my 30's i took him out to lunch, i had a -- i was a reporter, you teach people, give me writing advice and he said, don't use dialogue again. >> i did not get writing advice from him. i did see that it was something you could do and i did see that sometimes he was so excited that he couldn't keep himself from reading his work to us. you