I always wanted to ask my father one
question and I could never find the
courage my whole life tasks my father
and I we had a very strained
relationship he was a very tough guy
very tough guy and he took it out on
everybody around him and especially his
son which was the only and the firstborn
male he wanted me to what to toughen up
at one point in time I had a program
that I taught once a month in Toronto
where he lived and where I grew up in
Canada so he'd pick me up from the
airport and I go I go
hi dad and he go hello
I go how you do it you go
good I'd say how's mom
good do you have to ask so many
questions and that would be a good
conversation and so I swore to myself
that one of these times when he's
bringing me back and forth to the
airport I'm gonna ask him and so he
picks you up for the airport and I go up
I go dad
what I said I have a question for you
what do you want
I take a big deep breath the good dad
how come
in my entire life
you have never ever one time ever once
said to me I love you
how come not once
and I'm afraid to look over I've got my
hand ready to block the punch when it
comes and I'm looking over and for the
first time in my life I'm looking at
this man
crying I have never seen this man even
close to cry before in my life
tears are flowing from his eyes dripping
all over his shirt his chin is quivering
and all of a sudden he says Harve don't
you know I love you
it's like give me a hug and it gives me
a hug and I and I say to him in his ear
I said dad I love you more than
everything
I love you more than everything
I'm so happy that I finally cleared this
with him because just a short time later
he died and I learned one of the most
important lessons of my life say it
while you can
if you don't tell your husband or your
wife or your children that you love them
enough you tell them now if you don't
tell your parents that you love them you
forgive them what you tell them now say
it while you can say it while you can
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