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yonder

(9,666 posts) Sun Jun 17, 2018, 06:55 PM Jun 2018

I don't make this trip anymore,

but still miss my dad. Someone sent me this years ago, shortly after he passed:

So happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there and the folks whose dads are no longer here, too.

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I don't make this trip anymore, (Original Post) yonder Jun 2018 OP

Thanks for this, yonder ailsagirl Jun 2018 #1

I was a little tight in the throat yonder Jun 2018 #2

We're lucky we had them as long as we did. ailsagirl Jun 2018 #3

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)

1. Thanks for this, yonder

Reply to yonder (Original post)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 09:29 PM

Jun 2018

yonder

(9,666 posts)

2. I was a little tight in the throat

Reply to ailsagirl (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 17, 2018, 10:08 PM

Jun 2018

after posting that and watching the clip.

After looking at your post, I watched it again. My wife just came in the room, wondering why my eyes are all red and what those salty drops on the keyboard are. I kind of miss the grumpy old fart.

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)

3. We're lucky we had them as long as we did.

Reply to yonder (Reply #2)

Mon Jun 18, 2018, 12:31 AM

Jun 2018

But it's still kind of empty on Mother's & Father's Day, no matter how old we are.

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