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Article: DON'T be afraid to miss your dad. ...
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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DON'T be afraid to miss your dad.
That's the poignant message Ulster comic Patrick Kielty has given
to a nine-year-old boy called Sebastian after his father's premature
death from lung cancer.
The 38-year-old comedian -- whose own dad Jack was shot dead by
UFF gunmen when Kielty was 16 -- is among over 80 contributors in a
heart-wrenching new book that has just made it to the top of the
non-fiction bestseller list in Ireland.
"I have learned numerous lessons since my father passed," the Co
Down funnyman wrote in the book.
"I now know that nothing is a matter of life and death.
"It is, in fact, life and death -- both are part of each other
and cannot be separated.
"So, do not be afraid of ...