This blog was written on July 3, 2019, my 43rd birthday. It was really a birthday only in that I was born on July 3. We didn’t celebrate, at my request. I was in mourning, watching my dad fade away rather quickly. He died a little more than a month later. My wife did the […]
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Happy birthday, Dad. You would have been 75 on Saturday. I know that was an important number to you. A few months after we discovered that you had terminal cancer, you targeted Nov. 2 as a day you’d like to reach and celebrate No. 75. For a few months, it looked like that was a
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“You’re as old as you feel.” Thank God for that because I feel 26 on my 36th birthday. Several of the dozens of birthday wishes on Facebook (how awesome is Facebook on your birthday?) referred to my happiness and how great a year No. 35 was. It really was a wonderful year that included an
“So how’d it go?” “Good, he gave me $50 because he won some money at the casino.” “It’s his birthday … and he gave you $50?” As I explained to my girlfriend in that conversation, that’s just dad. I didn’t ask for the money, don’t need it, but he’s always been like that, especially with
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