My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Sometimes, people do not want parts. Instead everyone wants all of what is available and they can resent the part they did not receive, even if it is the part you tried to keep for yourself, or so it can seem.
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