Go give your father's a hug, if you can

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Posted by Kevin at 12.149.12.165 on June 01, 2003 at 23:10:01:

I'd hug mine if I could.

My father died very unexpectedly this morning around 5:30-6:00 a.m, suffering a massive
heart attack. He'd just turned sixty seven on May 22nd.

Very emotional day, to say the least.

Pop meant the world to me. The man was an excellent father and directly responsible for
my interest in movies, having taken me out of school early on Wednesdays to hit bargain
matinees when I was a kid. A quiet man who only spoke when he had something funny or
insightful to say, my sister often insisted he was the basis for Silent Bob. He'd survived
congestive heart failure a few months back, and rallied quite nicely to better health and a
more robust zeal for living than he'd had in years.

Fortunately, thanks to Wizard World this weekend, my entire immediate family was already
gathered in the same place at the same time - a feat rarely achieved over the last ten years.
My sister and her husband, who live in Hong Kong, were in town, and my Dad, Mom and
brother had flown up from Florida to see the Convention and my sis and me. Last night,
me, Jen, Mom, Dad, Don, Virgina and Eric had a great dinner at Morton's - talking, laughing,
and shooting the shit. If he had to go, he chose the best time to do it, surrounded by the
children he raised, their spouses, and the woman he loved and spent nearly every day of the
past forty one years beside. In this way, he died as he lived: generously and on everyone
else's schedule.

I love you, Pop. I'll miss the hell out of you.



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