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While I've never actually sired any children myself,* I have had the good fortunate to help with the raising of several of our coven kids.
The first of them was maybe a year old when we went to the store one day.
The cashier smiled.
“He looks like his father,” she said.
Really, there was only one possible response.
“Yes, he does,” I said, smiling back.
*The world's oldest gay joke:
My father watches me approach. The look on his face is complex.
He shakes his head, wondering.
“You look so much like my father,” he says.
Sometimes one single sentence is the very best gift you can give.
He's right: the rangy build, the jaw, the widow's peak. Right now I'm about the age that my grandfather would have been when I first remember him.
He was born in Vienna. I'd always thought that his name was Frank, but recently I found out that his parents named him (for the kaiser, I suppose) Franz Josef.
I'd be willing to bet that he chose Frank himself. Except for songs, he always refused to teach his children any German.
“We're Americans,” he'd say.
“That'll put hair on your chest!”
It's what my father always says when the tea's too strong.
It's a standing joke. Legs aside, none of the men in my family have much body hair to speak of. If there's any Neandertal DNA left in there, it must have got diluted out a long, long time ago.
“Gee,” I quip, “You mean I'll have seventeen?”
“Quit bragging!” says my father.
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