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This Father, Deserving
I once wrote the wrong name on a Father’s Day card. I was twelve and I’d had a few fathers by then, some “official” and some not. Fathers were fleeting things–like butterflies that fluttered just an inch too high for me to reach when we lived in northern Idaho, or the jets that flew so high and fast that they were out of eyeshot by the time I knew they were there when we lived outside McChord Air Force Base in Washington, or the thunderstorms that appeared out of nowhere and dissipated just as fast nearly every summer afternoon that we lived in Glen Burnie, Maryland. And fathers’ temperaments varied to about the same degree. So you can imagine that as I’ve read various articles this past week about Father’s Day, its role in family life, and its value and celebration mechanisms as compared to Mother’s Day, I found myself nodding at all of them even when one disagreed with another I’d read the day before. The truth is that fathers day meant very little to me until my second husband proved just how important fathers really are.
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on June 20, 2009 at 6:05 pm Comments (1)Tags: Father's Day