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Dear Dad Contents

About the Book

Prologue

Reflections

An Open Letter to a Father: Dear Dad 
John W. Fountain 
3

Dad’s Lesson: Life Is About Now, Not Then 
Donald A. Hayner
6

The Truth at Last 
Nichole M. Christian
9

Cutting My Son’s Hair: A Priceless, Intimate Moment 
John W. Fountain
14

Through a Picture Window 
Stephanie Gadlin
17

I Know, I Hope, I Wish 
Mario D. Parker
23

Ode to a Southern Father: For Daddy Luther 
John W. Fountain
29

Reconciliation

The God Who Embraced Me 
John W. Fountain
35

My Leading Man 
Hamil R. Harris
37

Open Letters to Young Black Men: A Plea for Life
John W. Fountain
42

An Open Letter to a Troubled Young Man:
 Lessons on Manhood
John W. Fountain
47

Strictly My Father 
Teresa Sewell
53

Never Too Late 
Sylvester Monroe
58

I’d Rather Have You 
John W. Fountain
64

Redemption

Lip Gloss, Hot Sauce, and a Father’s Loving Thoughts: 
An Open Letter to a Daughter
John W. Fountain
69

Where Were You? 
Vincent C. Allen
76

Absent but Always Present 
Monica Fountain
82

A Presence in His Absence 
Lolly Bowean
89

Flawed, Fallible, but Still My Hero 
R. Darryl Thomas
93

Tupac Is Alive: A Father’s Angst for a Son 
John W. Fountain
98

My Daughter, My Treasure 
John W. Fountain
101

Revelation

A Letter to a Professor: 
My Tribute to a Journalism Dad
John W. Fountain
105

Papí 
Rosa Maria Santana
109

A Tribute to a Father Not-So-Tough-as-Nails 
Joseph A. Kirby
115

An Open Letter to a Father: A Plea to a Wayward Son 
John W. Fountain
121

Finally, Peace for a Son 
John W. Fountain
129

Making Me Whole—Memories of Grandpa 
Anne Valente
146

The Father in Me 
Lee Bey
151

If I Had Had a Father 
John W. Fountain
158

Afterword

Acknowledgments