{"id":58216,"date":"2019-06-01T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58216"},"modified":"2019-06-11T20:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T20:28:51","slug":"rediscovering-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58216","title":{"rendered":"Rediscovering My Father"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rediscovering My Father<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2019-05-31<\/p>\n

Shannon Luders-Manuel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nLucy Jones<\/small><\/p>\n

In a lost photo, I found the memory of my dad I wanted to preserve.<\/em><\/p>\n

One night in 2001, newly married and in my first real apartment, I pulled out my grandma\u2019s vintage leather suitcase. Its handle was long gone, but I used it to store hundreds of old photos.<\/p>\n

I searched through each photo and negative<\/a>, hoping I might find a double of the one good picture of my dad and me.<\/p>\n

My dad had recently died of lung cancer. The last photo I had was of him lying on his hospice bed, feeble and hooked to an oxygen tank. Any hope of future connection was buried along with his ashes.<\/p>\n

Back when I was in high school and living in San Jose<\/a>, my friends Pamela and Emily had joined me on a rare weekend train ride to see my father in Sacramento<\/a>. The infectious giggles of teenage girls rubbed off on my dad, who was a natural kidder but always reserved and debonair. He and I were growing apart, as parents and teenagers often do, but the space between us was inflated by the extra complications of alcoholism, poverty and racially-blended families…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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