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Happy Fathers' Day, Dad

We're bombarded with ads to buy things for our fathers for Fathers Day. But sometimes the best gifts are memories ... because that's all we have.

Today I thought of you as I do every day;

The man who picked me up to say hello when he came home from work (even though I got too big too young);

The man who held my hand when I couldn’t get to sleep;

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The man who listened to opera on the car radio every Saturday afternoon;

The man who played catch with my brother and me in the front yard;

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The man who took us to the art museum and to the park to feed the ducks;

My first (and best) baseball coach;

The man who I looked for in the stands through mud crusted eyes from the football field;

The man who people in our neighborhood asked for help when their children got in trouble;

The man who taught me to do something even though it wasn’t popular ... because it was the right thing to do;

The man I turned to when life didn’t make any sense;

The man who listened to me, then spoke and made all the pieces fit;

The man who took my children to the art museum and to the park to feed the ducks;

The man who really didn’t say “I love you” much but I knew he did;

The man who loved his wife, his children, his grandchildren in simple showing ways;

The man who I listened to in his later years when his life didn’t make any sense;

Thank you for teaching me how to be a good father to my own children the way you were to me;

The man I still talk to every day; I can hear your words, Dad, even though you’re not here;

But then again, maybe you are!

Happy Fathers’ Day from a loving and very grateful son.

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