Article: G-RATED BACHELOR PARTY NOT WHAT HE EXPECTED

My third kid's wedding is history and it was a weekend filled with memorable meals and joyful parties. If I have any regrets at all, it's only that each event was another reminder of how I am starting to lose touch with my children's generation.

The event that reminded me most was the bachelor party.

I have been to approximately half a dozen bachelor parties in my lifetime and they all followed the same basic script: Guys drinking beer; girls jumping out of cakes; guys jumping into cakes; Polaroids that would require a great deal of explaining if my wife ever finds them.

You don't mess with tradition.

So as I head for the bachelor party my son's buddies are throwing for him, I am ...

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