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Opinion: Fathers are cool

By Jay Bookman
June 15, 2018

I’m going up to visit with my parents this weekend, to share Father’s Day with them.  To mark the occasion, here’s the great Luther Vandross, telling his own version of that age-old story.

Have a great weekend, folks, and as they say in the Good Book, “Honor thy father and mother”:

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