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Submitted to Contest #16
For many, when they think of the word Hero, the first person that comes to mind would probably be a war veteran, a superhero, or maybe a good Samaritan who saved them from drowning when they were a kid. For me, I can proudly say my hero was, is, and always will be, my Father. I didn't always feel this way about my dad, in fact I can still remember times as a child when I despised my father for trying to instill in me, what I know now were life lessons, but what I saw then as never-ending lectures of things "I already knew about". Only after ...
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