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Posted on June 19, 2026 by Judy Neibling

Dad, I Still Need to Know You: Can I Tell the Tree by its Fruit?

Dad, you are two-dimensional — a cardboard figure in my mind. For too many years I have wondered why I did not feel close to you. Desperately, I write to know you loved me. Dad and me at two years old in a Maryland snow With thin scraps of memories, I collage a quiet, respectable…

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