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WHAT IF MY KID DOESN’T FIT MY EXPECTATIONS?

LOVE MY DAD, who lives in Tennessee, but we are about as dissimilar as two similar people can get. Same personality, but with totally different interests. I’d always wanted to ask him how he’d reconciled his expectations of fatherhood and the reality of

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