..today, since my father died.
This is really depressing, when your parents have been dead that long already.
He was a big man, a large presence, unfailingly kind, a doctor, a lay minister, a philanthropist, handsome, splendid.
Readers, I wish you could have known him. Everyone who did was happier for the experience.
Memoro.
ST UnWoke! 
You have honored him so beautifully, Hypatia! I think this is the single greatest piece you have ever written, and everything you write is great.
I wish that I could have known your Dad too. I wish that you could have known mine.
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That everyone could have had such a father in this life. Your description describes my step father. I didn’t really know my biological father.
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Fathers are fundamental as well as yet another nearly extinct species in America the (once) beautiful.
Save the Padres!
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RIP, we do know him, Hyp, particularly from your responses to various posts of mine here – and are the richer for it. Hugs!
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Thanks so much, Nanda, it makes me happy that you would say you feel you know him!
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