He was renowned for his humility even to his friends, he was fatherly, he walked through life limping, and yet in some way, his limp was triumph. he had been told he would never walk again from his early 20s he walked until the day he died what felt late in his 60s he never abandoned those he loved a father like no other even when he was unsure if he was enough he boxed my ears occasionally sometimes he chewed me out for doing foolish things but never did i think he did not love me he told me almost every day until my teens and then his voice got quiet, and i saw him less often but he didn't have to say it by then i understood his was a love that -though a bit tough a bit rough around the edges stood. would always stand perhaps a bit broken but always, always there. Daddy, without you i would not be me.