Acey Duecey player and teacher.
Model airplane maker.
Navy man.
Santa Claus. Literally. Sometimes I was an elf.
Previous driver of a white Spirit and a locomotive truck, in parades.
Jokester. Rough tickler.
Sunday Lunch provider: water-based ham rectangles folded in half between two slices of fresh white bread, with mustard.
Movie nights: Amadeus was our last.
Giver of ice cream outings.
And rides, sleepovers, shelter.
Daddy Daughter fill-ins for me.
The guy who lived in the pink house.
Buyer of my first DC temple trip, where I got sealed to a new family 9 years later.
💖And the clothes I wore on that trip.
Ping pong table used for holiday meals in the basement, where I watched Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
Closest thing to a father.
Thank you. For all of it.
I'm sorry I didn't say it regularly for the last 30 years.
I'm coming.
