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Your Dad
I read your article on your father not needing you. I would like to offer you a something that works for us. My father in law is a very proud man and does not want people feeling sorry for him, so he did not want help. We changed it up a little and started asking him to help us sometime. We ask him to go to Home Depot to help pick out plants because he knows more about what will grow right now. We borrow something from him and ask him the best way to use it. We ask him over to dinner or we go over to watch a ball game and take snacks or hotdogs, we go by just to drop him off a special candy we know he likes, visit for a hour or so then leave. It is very important that you keep him built up so that he feels manly, needed and important not sick and old. I know you worry about his health, so does he but he still wants to be the strong one. Having everyone around because you are sick can bring you down. He will call when he needs you, My father in law does, finely.
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