My Dad gave me things educationally and experientially that I will always be deeply appreciative of, but I realized something about him recently. It's said that 'youth admires cleverness, age admires kindness.' Well, Dad never made that leap. My sister when I visited her a couple of weeks ago told me something about how he referred to his grandkids by my other sister, my biological sister, as his 'grandbastards.' In fact, they were none of them born out of wedlock, so there's that. But that... Sign in to see full entry.