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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (1926)	6/20/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: faqsnlojiks	Respond to of 7442

Happy Fathers day to you too Jed, and BLUE too! Although I don't have any of my own biological children, I have 2 kids. These are my wife's kids from a previous marriage. Although I never even came on to the scene until they were in their teens, I immediately wanted to be an example and role model for them. And amazingly enough, I was accepted by them too. Very surprising to me considering their age at the time. As it is now, I've been there for both high school graduations, and will attend a college graduation next year. I'm a granddaddy now (amazing, considering my age), and truly love my granddaughter as much as any granddad ever did. I feel privledged to have this family, and today especially, they have made me feel honored to have them in my life. As far as my own dad goes, he's still alive, and a great man. I never knew a person that would work as hard as him to ensure his family was taken care of. He is a man of the outdoors, preferring to sit in a duckblind or on the shores of a mountain stream to a movie theatre or concert hall. My earliest memories include going to baseball games with him. He would park the car, give me a buck-fifty and tell me to get the tickets. I would sprint off towards the ticket window, and buy the 2 tickets (.75 each), and have them ready for him by the time he arrived at the gate. One of my proudest moments was when I saved up enough of my allowance (.35/wk.) to pay for the game myself. I bought both tickets, gave him his, and gave him his 1.50 back. This was a father's day gift to dad, and he remembers that to this day. And I remember that he bought more hot dogs, cokes, peanuts and souveneirs that day than any other. And most of that was for me. So thanks dad...and thanks to all dads. It is you who teach us to become the men that we are. And it take a real man to be a dad. Palz, -Joe

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (1926)	6/20/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7442

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL! A Good Dad - What A Man! Doing his best to take good care of His Family, getting up in the middle of the night to feed/change a baby, not having a moment to relax watching over their safety when they're first learning to walk, hands cut up putting bikes and swingsets together in the middle of the night around birthdays and holidays, giving unconditional love without measure as he buffs the children's rough edges gently, squeaking the same bedtime story voices for the fifth time in an hour while his business homework languishes on hold, taking off his shoes at Chuck E Cheeze to tumble in the scary-smelling ballcage with the kids, scrambling up sled hills pulling the kids on a rope, taking them ice skating and roller skating but first wrapping his football knee in an ace bandage, sitting with little ones on his lap singing along with Barney and Sesame Street instead of doing something his practical side knows he should be doing instead, crawling around in pajamas under the bed with a flashlight at 3 am to make sure there are no monsters, interrupting a meeting with a client if his little one calls and wants to Talk To Daddy, ruining his good business shoes joining their snowball fight as he comes home tired from work, cleaning sticky keys on the computer and peanut butter and jelly handprints off the tv screen before he can relax after a hard days work for them, working alongside his son on restoring That La Bamba from the ground up and teaching the boy to drive the stick shift, interrupting his relaxing in front of the Playoffs to take his daughter to the mall for a shoe shopping emergency, getting all dressed up to take pictures of his daughter looking beautiful for the prom and being warm and friendly to her undeserving escort, slipping his son a coupla hundred for his prom weekend with his undeserving escort, fielding wee-hours calls from the neighbors about that Birthday Sleepover noise while resisting the temptation to go into the garage and pull the fuses, not complaining about blasting music turning his workaday thoughts to a blob before his coffee on a school morning, sitting on a chair that only seats half of him at Back-To-School-Night, proudly smiling as he fixes the window broken from a home run he painstakingly taught the young ones how to hit, thinking carefully about all sides of the matter when he's called out of work at midday to go to the school to pick up his child who got into a fight with another child (winner? loser?), knowing whose team he's always playing on and holding firm especially when the child thinks Dad's going against them, cherishing that hand-painted tie they made him and keeping it on all day when they proudly see him leaving the house with it on in the morning, doing work for work's sake to teach how and set the example when he'd really prefer hiring someone else to do it, taking a moment to arrange the fruit on their cereal in a smiley-face on a hectic morning, allowing them to have soda and ice cream for breakfast on a cabin-bound snowday when Dad's in charge... etc. etc..... Dads, all those Many Many ways you've given Life Lessons By Example and by saying Those Dadisms, so showing your love, maturity, and Rock Solid Manhood that your kids may not seemed to have noticed or maybe even took for granted as an opportunity to up the ante (kids being kids), Dads... The Loving Ways Of Dad are noticed and contemplated today. Young Dads, Old Dads, Stepdads, Grandpas, and Forever In Loving Memory To Dear Departed Dads (such as mine, too, May He Rest In Heavenly Peace).... Dear Dads, Know Today and Always How Much You Will Always Be Loved. And The Mothers Of Your Children (and stepchildren and nieces and nephews and pets and pals) -they are privileged to take the gift of your love of the children for granted in the bustle of everyday...& will be expressing their notice of your love, today, to your delight. Dads, IT'S YOUR DAY! Make The Most Of It!! Happy Fathers Day To All, Joan ps. yeh Jed ah knus whuz yew'uns ez tawkinbout an ah wel trah agin sune ta givitup. Ahv bin startin ta start latir an lessir wit ridin dat bike an thinkin bout it. Much Obliged 2U carin on dis daya yorn, Yer long tine frend, Joan