Category: family
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Absent Friends and Other Sorts
I remember during the Christmas holidays how my parents would raise a toast to ‘Absent Friends’. It was not a passing moment either, they would both privately linger obviously thinking back and remembering. I joined them of course but I didn’t get it, not really. How could I? I was a callow teenager. I had…
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A Toast to My Family
I wrote this some years ago and read it each year at our family Christmas table. I have learned how to love. I have strived and failed and succeeded in no particular order and I have been humbled. Through it all my family has always been there, teaching me, unwavering.
Tony with a capital T 