[Howlin]

This is a wonderful article, IMO.

[Sunshine55]

I'm sitting here in my cubicle bawling my eyes out.

[oceanview]

Savage read this tonight on his show. I got to hear it - before flipping him off when he called this a 'Soviet style show funeral'. Savage needs to be medicated.

[Lady Jag]

Nancy and Patti

[swheats]

This helps me to understand why Mrs. Reagan chose to allow the public in during such a private time in their farewell.

Thanks for the ping.

[Darlin']

I agree. Its a touching and thoughtful piece. She has become a very good writer and a loving daughter.

[Kate of Spice Island]

Thanks, Howlin...will real later.

Kate

[eddie willers]

It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.

I too was four decades gone before becoming the prodigal son and making peace with my father.

It's a new type of peace and a new type of love that is hard to describe...so satisfying, and yet, so bittersweet that it was so long in coming.

It is a love that is as aching as that for your first sweetheart, but maybe even more desperate because, instead of a limitless future, you know that in this, there will be an ending.

Patti, thank you for this rememberance....and don't worry darling, you made it home.

[Mo1]

Time taught me to appreciate a distant father

He was never very far from you Patty ... It's just how his generation was. My mother was much the say way, not one for being big on hugging, but I always new she loved me and was never very far when I needed her.

I am happy you could figure it out before it was to late .. and Thank you for sharing him with the rest of the World.

We are all blessed to have had him in our lives

[altura]

Thanks, Howlin. That is beautiful indeed.

[Peach]

A daughter grows up and "gets it".

[nutmeg]

This is a wonderful article, IMO.

I agree, Howlin. Thanks so much for the ping.