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- Story Listed as: True Life For Adults
- Theme: Family & Friends
- Subject: Aging / Maturity
- Published: 09/11/2014
I Can Remember
Born 1955, M, from Norwich NY, United StatesI Can Remember
By Herm Sherwood-Sitts
I can remember, crawling up on my foster dad’s lap with a book. He worked two jobs; he was a state highway worker and a farmer. At the end of the day he would be dead tired. Very seldom he would finish the book without snoring. My foster brother and I would have to wake him up to find out the ending.
Dad wore Old Spice aftershave. To this day when I smell it, I can feel his strong arm around me, while holding onto a book. Snuggled in, I lay my head on his chest and hear his deep voice read me the story of Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves.
This was roughly fifty three years ago and dad has been gone for some time now. All it takes is one whiff of Old Spice and the memory is there.
I doubt he had any idea, how a few minutes on his lap would mean so much to me, even now that I am fifty eight years old.
I Can Remember(Herm Sherwood-Sitts)
I Can Remember
By Herm Sherwood-Sitts
I can remember, crawling up on my foster dad’s lap with a book. He worked two jobs; he was a state highway worker and a farmer. At the end of the day he would be dead tired. Very seldom he would finish the book without snoring. My foster brother and I would have to wake him up to find out the ending.
Dad wore Old Spice aftershave. To this day when I smell it, I can feel his strong arm around me, while holding onto a book. Snuggled in, I lay my head on his chest and hear his deep voice read me the story of Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves.
This was roughly fifty three years ago and dad has been gone for some time now. All it takes is one whiff of Old Spice and the memory is there.
I doubt he had any idea, how a few minutes on his lap would mean so much to me, even now that I am fifty eight years old.
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Rati J.
12/16/2018My mom would often tell me that story. It's called Ali Baba aur Chaalis Chor in India. I never knew the story is this famous!
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