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Squinch

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24. Great thread, sheshe. Thank you.

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Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:04 PM

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Daddy. The ones we lost. Please share yours. [View all] sheshe2 Jun 2016 OP

Dad would tell me stories shenmue Jun 2016 #1

Teach your children well. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #2

I do shenmue Jun 2016 #3

I miss my dad leftofcool Jun 2016 #4

Love. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #45

My father, too, was great. longship Jun 2016 #5

No horn honking. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #8

Too bad about the lack of horn honking. longship Jun 2016 #11

My stepdad... Stellar Jun 2016 #6

Your step dad... sheshe2 Jun 2016 #10

My favorite memory is just after my mother died Warpy Jun 2016 #7

OMG! sheshe2 Jun 2016 #13

My Dad with his first daughter csziggy Jun 2016 #9

So hard to lose a child. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #15

My father read us the Just So Stories too! And fairy tales. Squinch Jun 2016 #22

Mine too! The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #23

And how the leopard got his spots, and the cake baking Parsee! Squinch Jun 2016 #27

I think I lucked out with parents - neither was perfect csziggy Jun 2016 #44

Love sheshe2 Jun 2016 #46

My father was an evil man... Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #12

I am so sorry for your pain. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #17

60 years later and it still stings...however it made me strong. Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #18

My father was a father but never a dad dem in texas Jun 2016 #47

Frank and Bob were your true father. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #55

I'm older now than my dad was when he died greymattermom Jun 2016 #14

Lost my dad this year. jtx Jun 2016 #16

Wonderful poem. dgauss Jun 2016 #25

I am so very sorry... lovely poem. Rhiannon12866 Jun 2016 #49

My dad... The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #19

Hey. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #20

Thanks - and to you and yours. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #21

Great thread, sheshe. Thank you. Squinch Jun 2016 #24

My daddy loved my mother. brer cat Jun 2016 #26

Ours was far from perfect. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #28

So many fathers (and mothers) were lacking in some ways. brer cat Jun 2016 #34

Oh no. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #35

That is very sweet, she. Kath1 Jun 2016 #29

My dad was an industrial chemist by profession and an amateur astronomer at heart. mnhtnbb Jun 2016 #30

I was my dad's kid. yewberry Jun 2016 #31

I remember my father saying mainstreetonce Jun 2016 #32

My dad was perfect in most respects, but he did not treat my mom with respect like many Hoyt Jun 2016 #33

We found this in my Dad's keepsakes. Delmette Jun 2016 #36

To all who don't have a Dad any more - New Orleans Strong Jun 2016 #37

My father... GaYellowDawg Jun 2016 #38

Thanks all for helping me find a positive memory. He bought the Great Books.... Hekate Jun 2016 #39

Love you. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #40

My father was very affectionate and loving Glorfindel Jun 2016 #41

To my dad and grandfathers: tavernier Jun 2016 #42

My memory was of his swimming. On land, he was not graceful, but in water, it was like watching a Hoppy Jun 2016 #43

lost mine in 2014 mnmoderatedem Jun 2016 #48

I saw this thread on Monday JustAnotherGen Jun 2016 #50

Thanks for that beautiful song, JAG. sheshe2 Jun 2016 #52

K and R bigwillq Jun 2016 #51

�When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. struggle4progress Jun 2016 #53

The smartest man I ever knew.. I was a Daddy's girl through and through annabanana Jun 2016 #54