- He had a way of making almost anyone feel comfortable and could get along with people who plenty of others couldn’t.
- He would come and fix your car for you even if you were in a different city and there was a snow storm.
- He continued to do people favors and give people deals even when some took advantage of that, were ungrateful or called him a sucker.
- He would always come home from garage sales with a treasure for a family member.
- He made me feel loved by listening and understanding me.
- He could make me feel better by simply saying, “Everything’s going to be alright.” I say it to myself now.
- He spent hours caring for grandkids and adjusted his work schedule so that he could help care for them.
- He painted amazing pictures and played beautiful music for us.
- He taught me how to laugh at myself and pick myself back up and showed me how it’s possible to bounce back from just about anything.

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you have been ‘rather bummed’ eh? You ‘put on a good show’. But you are in ‘pain’.

Most women I know have too. Don’t worry the pain will go over time. Perhaps try taking something to enable a less painful passage over time.

Graham is your dad?

how many times do we have to say this until you uncover the truth? Graham is black Jim. You are white. Embrace what you have.

I have never met my dad - I am trying to trace him down but his name leads me nowhere. On my birth certificate it states Father- ’some blokes from 2 para’

Dad’s chips on the way when we’re home in July…

CHIP SANDWICH (Homer Simpson drool in the land of chocolate)

My dad is a ’special’ person..! He doesn’t like to show his feelings but you know and feel that he really loves you.
- he is funny!
- he is smart/succesfull and helpfull!
- always thinks he’s right! (not always a positive thing) haha
- always interrested and supportive!
- tough from the outside, but soft from the inside (with me) haha!

And.. he is coming to Dubai is a few days! With my mom ofcourse.. Which is also nice!

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When I first watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding a couple of years ago, I just had to laugh aloud as I remembered my father and his Evostick in the same as the father in the movie used Windex!

Yes, things are getting easier now. I am reflecting on the lessons from my father as I wrote in depth on this post in January, my most popular posting yet:-

http://www.arvinddevalia.com/blog/2008/01/05/lessons-in-compassion-from-my-father/

Thanks and all the best - I hope you are enjoying the book
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My Dad was someone I admired a great deal in my youth, he always seemed to try hard at whatever he did and that is something I continue to aspire to.

He was a singer until my mother got cancer when I was 10,. He gave that up despite a promising career.

He left my mother when I was 18 to live with a woman he had been having an affair with for 6 years. He then married her and had two further children.

She managed to bring him down to her low level and, when his drinking resulted in a fit which gave him short term memory loss, she continued to take him to the pub until he started to drink again and had another fit.

He was never good at keeping in touch and we can go a year or more without contact and his wife will never help with that.

In the end he is still my Dad, and I will always remember him as he was in my youth. Vibrant, inspiring, fun, caring, sober.

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I missed your post back in December and read it just now. I knew you had lost a family member but didn’t realise it was your dad. That would have been tough to swallow at the time to lose him so suddenly and it’s great now that you can smile while remembering him.

His habit with the glue stick reminds me of the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” where the father used windex for everything… that was his answer… lol. Thanks for sharing
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My other half never knew his father and relied on his mates dads for some direction as he was growing up. Thanks for your honesty and it only impresses on me that learning more about my dad will make our relationship much closer.

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I too like AC never knew my “real” dad but I have the most wonderful step father any one could possibly ask for. Mind you as steps go we have had our fair share of arguments but I have never forgot the look on his face when he got to hold his first ever grandhild. It was magical! There has since been several other grandchildren arrive and he still gives the same look as he did 15 yrs previous. He is one of these DIY guys or more to point needs to work out how things work then can’t understand why things never seem to work properly after he has played with them. He is the one that when something is genuinly broke he can fix it!! I suppose all those years of pulling things apart has done some good!!! He is the one the grandchildren run to if a toy nees to be fixed because “pop” can fix it because he has super glue. And mind you even though I am a couple of thousand klms away I still ring him if I need something to be done!!! Yes I could possibly get my husband to fix it but I’m sure Dad can do better!! LOL!!

So as fathers go I have been blessed with mine and I make sure I always say “I love You” whenever I finish talking to him on the phone.

That’s his way of saying “I love you” Parents have a funny way of expressing those 3 little words.

cheers

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My dad is in good hands and the procedure is a very common one so mum and I will be at the hospital on Friday morning and will be there when he comes to afterwards. Thanks for sharing and have I missed something about this haunted house? Are you building one for real?

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thanks for your thoughts… we found out today that my dad has to go in for a triple by-pass op on Friday morning and when it’s all over, he will be on the road to recovery and feel a lot better than what he has done in years.

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Thanks Jonathan.

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