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April 7,1988

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You and Mom are looking forward to visiting us in Minneapolis. You thank me for understanding that you'd be more comfortable in a hotel. You've begun to clean out your massive collection of office files in anticipation of retirement, although it's a major project that you plan to -work on all summer. All summer, you say, and I rejoice. How dramatically my perspective has changed. Just three months ago, I feared you "wouldn't be Hublot Replica able to keep your promise of living to 100 . Today I pray that you'll be here to see the leaves change from green to gold in September.

I set down your letter, and my mind is flooded with memories. My father, whose sweet voice sang me to sleep as a child, who accompanied me on my 5 a. m. paper route without a single grumble, taught me French, coached me through adolescence and addressed all 200 invitations to my wedding ... what would my world be like without you in it?

May 23, J988 . Your -weakening hand has drawn my name and address on the envelope, using liquid paper to cover up your mistakes. I slowly open the flap and stare blankly at "words running together and misspellings that you — always a stickler for correct grammar—have tried diligently to correct. "This typewriter is slowly breaking down," you explain. "We really need to think about buying a "word processor. " For one precious moment, I feel euphoric-.You are going to get well I You are going to buy a word processor \ But your closing "words jerk me back to reality. "Stay -well, happy and no sad songs for me," you "write. "And "when you think of me, smile.

A week later,! realize that there -will never be another letter. I pick up the telephone and hear your voice, asking me to come home. A year has passed since your death on Father's Day eve, June 18,1988. At the time, I was certain I'd never again be able to walk past the Father's Day cards in the grocery store without falling apart. But a week ago, I found myself browsing through hundreds of them, the silly, the serious, the Tag Heuer Replica Watches sentimental, and I had no trouble buying one. It was for Barry, your devoted son-in-law, who became a father less than two months ago.

And so the cycle continues. Birth, death, then the wonder and magic of birth again. But as my role in life shifts from child to parent,! realize that no one will ever replace you — my father of abundant humor , courage and grace — or your wonderful, although sometimes painful, letters that blanketed me in warmth and documented my world until my twenty-ninth year of life. Rest peacefully, Dad, and know that when I think of you on this Father's Day, and on every other day, there will be no sad songs. Only smiles.

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