`` the only time my father took me to a petting zoo , the pony ate my sweater . '' i asked him to research a portrait i noticed on our last journey . but the girls needed to live in a better atmosphere . `` i do n't care what tales you told her , i still do n't believe you 're her father . `` in a minute , they 're going to do a sweep . `` if you refuse , i wo n't force you . who am i to add more to his loss ? 