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My father MY HERO

Just before Christmas, I lost my beloved father. Dad was hardworking and honest, the word reliable written through the middle of him like a stick of rock. A knight of good manners and decency.

‘Kindness is an underrated but potent quality’

He worried about me wanting to be a writer as opposed to something steady and traditional, but he never interfered. And because the father of my sons wasn’t in their lives, Dad was their male role model. I couldn’t have wished for a better one.

One day when I was a teenager I walked into our house to find this beautiful

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