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The older I get, the more I become like my dad
It was the height of hubris to think I could outwit my father
Image by Olichel Adamovich from Pixabay
“When are you going to stop sneaking out in the middle of the night?” my dad asked, poker-faced.
The gig was up.
When I was a teenager, in order to join my friends for some late-night debauchery, I had to circumvent our home security system. I couldn’t risk waking my . . .
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