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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Topher, post: 216010, member: 8489&quot;]Since everyone else went for the hairstyle - I&#039;ll take on the original contest:</p><p><br /></p><p>My Role Model (in Three Paragraphs)</p><p><br /></p><p>When I was young, I looked up to my father.&nbsp; He was the biggest, strongest, smartest man I knew.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know many, but I knew him, and I wanted to emulate that and be like him. He spent whatever time he could with us, he watched all our concerts, he coached my baseball and basketball teams, even though he worked long days.&nbsp; I always thought that when I grew up I&#039;d just do what he did, because that&#039;s what a dad did. </p><p><br /></p><p>As I got older, I realized that my father and I were very different.&nbsp; He was more conservative, I&#039;m more liberal.&nbsp; He may have the wisdom of years, but lacks the &quot;vision&quot; of youth.&nbsp; I started to notice that he wasn&#039;t perfect, he had flaws, he was human.&nbsp; Yet, he was still my father.&nbsp; He was still someone I wanted to be like when I grew up, even if I had no interest in his line of work.&nbsp; Even if I was never good at the things he excelled in, and I was good at things he couldn&#039;t do.&nbsp; My opinion of him didn&#039;t change, just my perspective.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I am a father myself.&nbsp; I see the kinds of things that my father must have gone through when I was younger.&nbsp; We couldn&#039;t be more different, yet we are so much alike.&nbsp; I see the sacrifices he made for our family, and I see the enjoyment he got out of it.&nbsp; He doesn&#039;t regret a day of his life, and I don&#039;t either.&nbsp; I can only hope to be half the father he was, yet he tells me I&#039;m that and more.&nbsp; No matter how old I get, my father is still my role model.&nbsp; And my best friend.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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