Open Thread: What Sort of Father Was Your Dad?

Open Discussion:

What type of father was your dad? What’s your best memory of him? As a parent, will you learn from his mistakes or try to be just like him?

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Check out our Father’s Day section with a whole range of fatherhood pieces:

To the Father I Never Knew by Erik Proulx – the story of a man who wishes his father hadn’t been lost to heroin addiction.

TEX by Andy and Jim Hinds – Andy and his dad tell awesome stories about Andy’s tough-as-nails bootlegging, cowboy grandpa.

A Tribute to My Father: The First Good Man I Ever Loved by Nicole Johnson – Nicole has a lot to be grateful for this Father’s Day… A great story of father-daughter love.

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