The Happiest Man

My wife uploaded a video of our one-year-old daughter, Hyun, giggling at me as I rapped about how happy our family was. Within a few days, the video had eight million views on YouTube. Friends I hadn't heard from in more than ten years messaged me, saying they recognized me in the video. “Congrats on becoming a star,” read a message from an unsaved number. “You’re looking at the happiest man on earth,” a TV broadcaster introduced me yesterday. “Awwww, we should all live like that father!” a movie star commented on Instagram. My Instagram account used to have 62 followers. Now it had 52K. I pulled down the page to refresh it every few minutes, as if I were desperately checking the news during last year's presidential election. I put “the happiest man” in my bio. I couldn't keep up with the hundreds of proposals in my DMs. More than half of them wanted Hyun and me to reenact the scene for an ad. Gourmet soft drinks, eco-friendly diapers, truffle oil potato chips, and even weight-loss…

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