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Article: Split pea soup with Dad was treasured time
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2008
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The last time we had lunch, I brought him his usual favorite:
split pea soup and bread sticks. He was waiting in the doorway to
greet me when I walked down the stairs.
"You're Cathy, aren't you?" he said, giving me a long, curious
look. "Are you the writer?"
"Yes, Dad, that's me."
We sat quietly at the table that day, spooning soup into our
mouths, happy in the moment. Later, as I watched him nap in his
recliner, I knew somehow that we'd had our last meal together.
He's been gone about a month now, but the memory of that
afternoon will always seem lustrous and new. So I hope you won't
mind if I digress from my column's usual format this week to write
about the person I'd love to lunch with ...