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In reply to the discussion: DUers, what did your dad do or say during your childhood that has influenced how you live [View all]WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)learned then and there to make my own way, my own career, and never to depend on a man EVER.
Luckily, I married the most wonderful, kind, sweet, and generous man, and we were together for 40 years and 363 days.
OTOH, I was and am very proud of my father, WWII Bronze and Silver Stars winner. And he took me to libraries as a child. He encouraged my literacy (I became an English teacher), my interest in foreign languages and lands, and in general my intellectual pursuits.
And he taught me to play the trombone because he had done, having been taught by "Old Man" Dorsey (the father).
Perhaps most significantly, even though he was in "Management" in Bethlehem Steel, it was at a level such that he supported the unions and was a good Democrat (sadly, until Nixon and VietNam, though he really liked and respected John Lennon for "In His Own Write"!). And so, so am I.
Complicated. Like all of us.