My father is visiting

2 May 2008, 3pm

Eleven random biographical notes:

1. When I was very small he worked two jobs at once; one was in a sawmill
2. On his fortieth birthday he got a perm
3. He used to drink too much, then one day he just stopped
4. He can be stubborn as a mule who’s just graduated stubborn school
5. Though born in Alberta, his veins practically pulse with sea water
6. On a hot day out in a boat near North Pender Island, he dared me to dive into the water to cool off; a week later I developed pneumonia
7. When she had decided their marriage was over, I helped move out my mother’s stuff while he, completely unaware, was out fishing
8. His own father was seriously injured when a drunk woman, unable to find her chauffeur, plowed her car through the crowd at Lansdowne Racetrack
9. We got into a fistfight when I was sixteen and he had me down in seconds
10. He has a new hearing aid, and a new hip
11. He is sixty nine years old

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