Nearly three weeks ago, I started to write a piece that began, “Today is my fortieth Father’s Day, but my first one as a father.” My plan was to combine some sweet reflections about my own fatherhood with some acknowledgements and thanks to my dad for the kind of father he has been and inspired me to be. Those thoughts and feelings are still going strong, but actual fathering has made it difficult to move them from my head to the written page.

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