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Beauty is in everything but not everyone can see it.
Three years ago; Tony McCann:
"Dan, you have GOD. Don't let go. You and your wife will go through peaks and valleys at different times, read her, study her, help her. You are going through what you are going through, nobody else is going through what you are going through in this way; you can tell people, respectfully, to step off until they are in your shoes. Most importantly: this, this will pass. Remember that: this too shall pass. It will hurt, give yourself permission, it's okay."
And now, statistically, after three years have passed, one blip, one other father in the same shoes. We were instantly good with each other. I didn't even have to front the alcohol (it's a Publix law). Then nothing, then, in the last three months, three more fathers in familiar looking shoes. No Dad Left Behind.