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At night I alternately laughed and cried through the Tender Bar, (more like roared and sobbed). I barreled head long through the pages, late into the night, until I found what I was looking for. The line concerning what all sons feel for their fathers, “that such sadness is part of the hard work of manhood.”
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This February will not last as long as most. I will barely notice winter pass into spring. And if I’m lucky, when I retire my three lovely Christmas presents to the book shelves in my office, I’ll step outside into a nascent spring day and there it will be – a chestnut-sided warbler.
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