My Old Man

He was born in '43 and sailed to America with his mother and then-fetus of a brother at a very young age. So he must've started being socially-aware in the 50s -- when it's relatively common knowledge the country was enduring an abject phase of conformity: and young people had to endure a great many arbitrary rules such as letting a woman walk on their stomachs if you were a man. In fact, it's also said that the counter-culture of the 1960s was a direct response, direct protest to these bizarre sorts of demands. (Plus Vietnam. Plus the widespread communities of racists and purposefully brutal police.) And I never knew any of his friends if he had any. But he liked Steppenwolf and the Godfather and Seinfeld and Rush Limbaugh, at one point, too, and he had a son who's forgiven him all of his trespasses. 

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