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Article: Rich Chocolate Silk Pie Is A Sweet Valentine for Dad
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 4, 1993
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It seems he will be alone on Valentine's Day. So will I. Alone
in the sense of not having a lover who will bring flowers or candy.
And so I will make him a pie and take it over, and we will spend half
an hour, or at most an hour, together. More than that and our old
issues come up. For half an hour, we can give each other all the
love we have for each other.
He is old. Very old, by most standards, as he is 86. But he
doesn't think he is old, and that makes him younger than his actual
years.
He has several women in his life. There is the woman he sits
next to at the Waffle House at breakfast. They each have their
favorite stools, his being next to the place he can rest his cane. A
widow, ...