Music has a way of making a certain distant memory very vibrant and even more so meaningful. There are a lot of songs like that for me, songs that help me remember an important moment in my life. Whenever I hear "Surfer Girl" by The Beach Boys, I will always remember the moment my dad played it for me on his guitar and convinced me that he wrote the song about me, as a joke. Of course, as a six-year-old, I believed him wholeheartedly and told everyone at school that my dad had written the song for me. My family was living in Hawaii at the time, so one can imagine how often this song played on Island Radio. I was so close to my dad as a child, and I felt so special to think that he wrote this song for his youngest daughter. I remember being crushed when my big brother realized that I had actually taken my dad seriously, and he inevitably broke the news to me. However, still to this day, whenever I hear this song, it makes me smile and think about my dad and how loved and special I felt when he played this song for me.