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    My Father’s Cold, Black Wick

    Perhaps once you were somebody smiling. Somebody in their youth, but even then, have you ever parted with your stone-cut stare? It haunts me to think of it after all these years.   The earliest memory of you taking me to basketball...

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    • Very understandable. I have a love hate relationship with my late mother. I can never have her love or know why she couldn’t love me. I wish she would have been silent and stoic. I only knew my Dad the last year and a half of his life.
      Relationships are hard. You take from them what you can – even if it’s a great lesson in how to be. I wish I had known that years ago. I became too much like her. Not abusive but her other bad habits.

      • Well you know only recently have I found it necessary to write about my parents. Both contrasted with the other yet they were married thirty-seven years until my mother’s death. My father, I’ll keep venting about because it helps me get past many depressing things from childhood. Thanks for the comment as always, Paula.

        Daniel

    • Powerfully penned, Daniel. The flip side of the coin so to speak, compared to your mother in the previous write. You’re a gifted writer my friend. Appreciate you.

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    My Mother’s Last Candle Flicker

    Once so stout and personality glowing, then so frail and wordless as your flame no longer flickered to the beat of your softening breath. My mother, I love you still! Always and forever until the day I see you again. Where...

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    • Very tender and loving, as it should be. You are fortunate to have her as inspiration. It has paid off well.

    • Beautifully penned, Daniel. Such a tender write my friend, amazing work. Appreciate you.

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