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Article: My Father My Son My Self
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 11, 1987
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My father's guitar has his name, Len, printed immodestly in
three-inch iridescent letters on its body, and they glisten as he
tunes up to play for my son. His lyrics, scrawled into homemade
booklets, are spread out on the floor, the kitchen sink, the music
stand. As ever, my father takes his hootenannies seriously. He has
always had this goose-like way of craning his neck as he reads. And
silhouetted against a single lamp, he does this as he peers through
silver reading glasses that are oddly oversized for his head.
Knowing what a skinflint my father is, I figure he got a deal on them
a long time ago and they've been falling off into his soup ever
since. At 67, my dad still looks as I ...
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