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Quotation of the Day for July 4, 2012"You miss your mother in a different, more dramatic way: You were ripped from her body, after all, and so when she dies, a part of what was once you disappears for good. But your father stands apart, watching, the one who shows you how life works, who provides context -- your instructor, your guide, your tracker, your friend (if you're fortunate, and I was) and finally your companion. Eventually, if things go the way they are supposed to, he leaves before you do and you face the world without the person who first ventured it beside you. "What he leaves is a gap, a fissure in your belief that the world is worth exploring. It doesn't feel like much at first, especially if he was a good father, because he's made you believe you don't need him. That is the job of the father, after all -- to fail his children, gently." - Ian Brown, from his essay "What we lose, when our fathers are gone". [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/fathers-day/ian-brown-what-we-lose-when-our-fathers-are-gone/article4288698/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jul. 3, 2012  |
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