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Thursday, April 4, 2013
D is for Dad
I am, ahem, a mature woman whose father has been gone for close to twenty years but to this day when I think of him it is always as my Dad, emphasis on my.
I know kids tend to think the world revolves around them but somehow I completely missed the fact that my parents were autonomous, with a life outside of our house. Now that I'm an adult, I know this was partially by design since my dad (there I go again), carefully kept his adult problems out of my childish world.
If he were here today I would thank him for my carefree childhood and let him know that no matter how old I get he will always be MY dad.
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I too am a mature woman....very mature my died when I was three yrs old, I never knew him but still wonder about him.
ReplyDeleteLove post now how you feel.
Yvonne.
Very sweet. Good parents are so very precious. Mine provided a carefree childhood for me too and it's one of the best gifts I've ever received.
ReplyDeleteWe were lucky indeed. It breaks my heart when I see kids that don't have the same opportunity we had.
DeleteHow very wonderful. He was quite a man to keep you so sheltered.
ReplyDeleteYup, it was great growing up in Disney World but when reality hit I was gob-smacked:)
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