I’ve written infrequently about my father – our strained relationship, his excellence as a teacher and coach, his tolerance of my mother’s love of stray dogs – and I suppose that’s because during his lifetime, I couldn’t quite reconcile our lack of “closeness” when I was growing up. I’ve been more successful at that since his death, but I wonder whether my youthful impatience was an impediment to our having more collegial interactions during my childhood.
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