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Dads

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                                                               Dads Funny things aren't they? So many different feelings for them at so many different times of your life. Early years: eager for daddy to come home from work so you can tell him every detail of your school day, who pulled your hair, exactly how rank the liver and bacon was for lunch, having a full-on strop when he pretended to eat your last jelly baby. The teen years, the "wait till your father gets home" fear, the look that told you maybe no, you wouldnt be stepping out the front door "dressed like that", the sharing a love of music & '"educating" him on the genius of the Pet Shop Boys, Blondie & Adam Ant, the same as he educated you on the likes of Sinatra, Sammy & co. The lifts to here there and everywhere, the coming to get you in before your mother went loopy that you were late. For having your back, always, but you not really understanding why. Your 20s: