{"id":31,"date":"2016-06-27T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/lisa\/post\/2016\/06\/27\/An-Ace-Among-Deuces.aspx"},"modified":"2016-06-27T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T09:18:00","slug":"an-ace-among-deuces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2016\/06\/27\/an-ace-among-deuces\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ace Among Deuces"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a sad several months here, watching my Dad slowly leave.<\/p>\n

Today is the end of this time of watching anxiously and wondering how it was going, how it would go.  <\/p>\n

Dad, I thought I was going to sing you Mi-a sama<\/a> and Mairzy doats<\/a> on the phone this morning. Two silly songs that belonged to us together, because we have always been a bit goofy together, and because music has always been the best way of reaching out to you even when you were no longer singing.  <\/p>\n

Today I can’t sing either. Yesterday’s call turns out to have been the last time the phone could bring us together.  I said everything I wanted to, and I know you heard and understood it.<\/p>\n

There was no real “last conversation”.  The conversations will just be in my head now. Today I will add this: Tod and I were your pair of deuces, Dad.  And we know that you knew it was a winning hand.<\/p>\n

Tonight I will put some pepper in my wonton soup and make absolutely sure not to have any ice in my glass.  <\/p>\n

Next week I will watch “A Thousand Clowns<\/a>” and remember again why you are always my hero. <\/p>\n

Someday I will tell Jonah<\/a> more about you than he is able to remember for himself, and more than his father<\/a> can help Jonah remember on his own.  You will be one of their heroes, too.<\/p>\n

Dadwahr, we didn’t say goodbye, because we don’t need to.<\/p>\n

I miss you and I never will miss you. <\/p>\n

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