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1 Dad kept both hands hovering an inch above the
2 wheel, the way a man hovers near a ladder
3 he insists his son doesn't need help climbing. "You're
4 fine," he said, three times, in the particular voice
5 he used only when he was not entirely convinced
6 himself. I eased the car through the empty lot,
7 and each time I braked too hard he exhaled
8 through his nose instead of speaking, a small controlled
9 weather system of restraint. When I finally parked without
10 clipping the cones, he did not cheer. He only
11 nodded once, the way he nodded at the end
12 of a job well done, and told me to
13 do it again, as though praise might undo whatever
14 progress the silence had built.
The father's manner as described by the narrator is best characterized as:
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