It what ways are you like your parents? I have my dad's solitaryness and empathy. I also

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1. I'm pretty much my own person but

I like to put chotskies in my car like an Navaho Eagle feather hanging from the rear view and a little Buddah and a lizard on the dash. When I was about 50 my wife pointed out that my father did the same kind of thing in his cars.

From my step mother, I learned to love to cook. She was old school. Her mother came across on the wagon trains so canning, preserving and making the best use of whatever was in season were just what you did. She was amazing! When I was about 12, we lived on an apple orchard in Sebastopol and we kids would gather berries, plumbs, apples, whatever was growing and she would turn whatever we brought home, including squirrils into incredible edibles.

She is still alive. I really must write her a letter telling her what an affect she had on my life cause we never really got along when I lived with them. Just the normal resentment of the stepkid I guess.