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“Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.”
“He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.”
“Even Dad likes it," said Caddy, and her father agreed that he did. In a way. Being a broad-minded, tolerant, artistic sort of person. Or so people told him..."Oh, yes?" said Saffron, rolling her ey...”
“He knocked politely and entered the principals office with his dad face in full effect. He put his hand on my shoulder in a way that came off as both stern and proud. He was dad-ing it up for the p...”
“He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. ...”
“These two Joesthe nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamerwere my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.”
“For someone so intuitive, he said, shaking his head, sometimes you only see what you expect to see.”
“He knocked politely and entered the principal’s office with his dad face in full effect. He put his hand on my shoulder in a way that came off as both stern and proud. He was dad-ing it up for the ...”
“These two Joes—the nasty bully and the starry-eyed dreamer—were my father. Growing up, the difficulty was knowing just which Joe would rise with the sun that day.”
“For someone so intuitive,” he said, shaking his head, “sometimes you only see what you expect to see.”
