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Perhaps these human frailties are more fleeting and not the total picture Dad makes them out to be for his characters.
I can picture Dad and Granddad in the garage, carrying on their annual mock argument about the relative merits of peanut oil and lard.
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You have to keep baby pictures, Dad.
So this is not a typical picture book dad.
The picture of Dad was taken by Astrid Kirchherr in Hamburg, when he was about 17 years old.
At home, watching the evening news, it was easy for me to picture my dad, heroically defiant, in handcuffs and leg irons, being led across the screen.
"I loved one single couplet in that song," Jerry once told me, "It went, 'Here's a picture of dad's old car, never got us very far.' That's writing, and it made the whole song worth doing".
So I rushed home and there were a lot of big cars in the driveway of my house and my mother was there and I embraced her and commiserated and I said, "This is a picture of Dad.
She showed me a picture of dad #3.
When I have my first glass of eggnog of the season, I can picture my dad in his pajamas and his drippy-ass do-rag, struggling to put together some new gadget toy for me on Christmas Day.
It's easy to resort to parental stereotypes when expecting a baby as a same-sex couple to picture a dad coaching tee-ball while dispensing life advice through baseball metaphors, to imagine mom bathing and diapering, breastfeeding and singing lullabies.
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