father
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Went shopping with my father today. Nothing fancy. We needed a few basics, so we stopped by one of those big discount stores. We always end up talking about clothes, even if that’s not what we came for. I usually check for decent brands on sale. Not designer stuff, just things that last — good…
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He was born in the early 1950s, in a countryside village where winters were long and electricity arrived late. His earliest memories, I imagine, were of rice fields and the way steam rose from his mother’s morning soup. He didn’t talk much about those days — only that the mountains were close and the neighbors,…