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My Dad & I had our moments, especially when I was in my early teens. I did stupid stuff that I know pushed his buttons :D. We were never "really" close, but he took care of me and the family as good as anyone could. As I reflect back, he always did have my best interest at heart, and allowed me to do things that seemed trivial to me, but were huge sacrifices to him. Like when I monopolized the garage and carport when I was 16/18 years old. He worked his whole life to get those things, only to allow me to use them as he had to clean off snow or scrape frost from his car just to go to work.....

I do miss him and hope I was able to show him that I loved and appreciated him before I lost him in 2005.

Mom is still with us at 76, and was always protective to a fault. Even today, we go head to head debating issues, but in the end, I think we're good.