But you left out some details about how you needed to be home before dark, because the bandit that gunned down the marshal was still in the hills.
And you'd tell your dad you weren't a child anymore. You'd be fine.
And your father would start to tell you about when he was a law man, and you'd interrupt and tell him you knew those stories, and how he told them to any man interested in you, and he'd talk about being young once, and you'd ask him what happened to that fearsome ne'er-do-well, and he'd tell you that he vanished the day he became your father.
And the day before would have started the exact same way, as if on script.