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					Originally Posted by  Eliza Hodgkins 1812
					 
				 
				 what I want is a father who loves me and is proud of me in the present tense.   
			
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 Write a letter to your father, dated today.  Catch him up on you.
Next, write your father's reply as he would have expressed it.  Capture his voice.