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You got me on this one. My Dad died nearly fifty years ago and I still miss him. I have buried several "replacement" fathers since. We do bury them all.

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Steve, yes, we end up losing all our fathers.

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This really hit me. I'm a 52 year old woman still lonely for my father who died at 62. Perhaps I miss him so much because you never really get that kind of unconditional love from anyone else.

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Ah, Kelly, thank you for sharing a bit of your story. The everpresent grief.

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Mother exchanged, hits home, Sherman.

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Thank you, Alaina. Love to you all.

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My phone is spell-correcting your name to Alaina! I don’t know an Alaina! Alaine.

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I figured—I get it all the time🙄😉. ❤️

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Beautiful and touching! I love the raining in the poem.

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Thank you

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I love the rain in Seattle. The increasingly hotter summers are killing me. My father passed away a year ago at age 82.

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My condolences. The summers are getting worse.

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Oof, this wrecked me. Thank you.

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Thank you so much.

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I once killed a man

In my tavern

It took years

The roof leaked

And the lightbulb over the bar

Over his head

Dripped

His name was Frenchy

I tried to fix it

I hear his laugh

But he's gone

No wonder

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believing both rain and father is available out there

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Yes…

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