The Father Who Caught Her Every Time

In 2011, a four-year-old named Ellie Farmer stood at the edge of the community pool in Bend, Oregon, trembling. Her father, waist-deep in the water, held out his arms. "Jump, Ellie. I'll catch you." She jumped — not gracefully, not confidently — but she jumped. And he caught her. She climbed out and jumped again. And again. Fourteen times that afternoon, each leap a little less hesitant, each landing secure in the same steady hands.…