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yonder

(9,666 posts) Sun Jun 20, 2021, 03:27 PM Jun 2021

Happy Father's Day to all the dads nearby, far away or no longer here:

My own dad has been gone about ten years now - this song always does me in.

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Happy Father's Day to all the dads nearby, far away or no longer here: (Original Post) yonder Jun 2021 OP

My dear dad MFM008 Jun 2021 #1

...or a phone call away. yonder Jun 2021 #2

MFM008

(19,814 posts)

1. My dear dad

Reply to yonder (Original post)

Sun Jun 20, 2021, 03:50 PM

Jun 2021

Gone since 2000.
Just like yesterday.
He just stepped in the next "room."...😢😢

yonder

(9,666 posts)

2. ...or a phone call away.

Reply to MFM008 (Reply #1)

Sun Jun 20, 2021, 04:01 PM

Jun 2021

My daughter once asked if I missed Dad. I said "sure I do, but I just think of him as a phone call away" as he lived far away....and 'just stepped in the next room'.

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