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Mariuccia's avatar

Love, love, love!!!!

ChilliGal's avatar

Ohhh that made me smile and cry - just the sort of thing my dad would write to me - but nothing like as eloquently

Pegra's avatar

As we say in my family, the nut doesn't fall far from the tree!

Sharon Buchbinder, PhD's avatar

Wow! Papa had QUITE the imagination! "Then comes a man hid in a teapot" Apple not falling far from that tree!!

Maryam Shuttleworth's avatar

This was read aloud at a Letters Live event over a year ago. It has stayed with me and I have been trying to find it ever since. So glad to have now. Simply wonderful. I can’t wait to show it to my children. Thank you.

Barbara Swander Miller's avatar

Growing up must’ve been a delight with a father who had this imagination and expression!

Cate Salenger's avatar

Wow. He came by it honestly.

Sue Cauhape's avatar

My what a bluster and a hew!