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A Father's Strength

A Father's Strength

a story about my dad

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Kara Dedert
Jun 09, 2024
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Written for the June edition of TableTalk.

Long Sunday sermons provided six-year-old me with plenty of time to memorize every detail of my dad’s hands. I do not recall sermon points, but I can still vividly see and feel his rough and calloused hands holding mine. His fingers were pure muscle, and I was amazed to find his thumb wider than several of my fi…

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