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Some Father’s Day
questions for my father(s)
Think of it this way, when you read what I’m sharing on this
Father’s Day, you may think it’s a downer. But I’ll bet it will make you
appreciate your own father even more.
Questions I wish I had asked my father:
Even if you believed that you weren’t my father — that your
brother was — how could you be so cruel to tell me such a thing when I was only
seven?
If I hadn’t looked up just in time those two times when I
was playing with my toy truck while you were digging in the planter, would you
have crushed me with the shovel as you were poised to do?
OK, I was only nine the last time I saw you — before the
accident that would put you in a coma and eventually kill you, but why can’t I
remember just one kind word or one bit of encouragement, or remember you ever
touching me with something other than your belt?
Why did you get so angry with me at Gilmore Field when I was
unable to pick out which player the batter was? You kept shouting that he was
the guy standing in the box. I looked and looked, but there were no boxes lying
on the ground — much less someone standing in one.
