The Genome of the Last Surviving Member of an Order from which Dinosaurs, Birds, Mammals...

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10. Well, everyone has their flaws ... your Dad sounds like one of the good guys ...

... with a flaw that would have annoyed me, but it could have been a lot worse, I guess.

When I think of the positive attributes I associate with my own father, they are all things he *didn't* do -- he wasn't an alcoholic, or a wife-beater, or a fundamentalist, or a racist, or a right-wing nut job. But he just didn't like people, and made no exceptions for his own family, whether by blood or marriage. He died recently, and it took no more than a few words for his survivors to agree there would be no funeral and no remembrance. It is sad that he was able to live in such a way that he is not missed by anyone.

"... made absolutely sure to be everything his father wasn't" is not that far from how I've tried to do things.