...and love goes out to my father-in-law Tad serving as a missionary in Thailand, another great example of a father who installed in his sons what a good father should be so that as a result his son (Randy) turned out to be a pretty great guy and loving father to his daughter (& son Rogan hee hee).
"Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life." ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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