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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blissskr, post: 2272643, member: 34882&quot;]Sorry for your loss [USER=4781]@dcarr[/USER], and very interesting history and touching tribute to your father. I unfortunately have lost both my parents to cancer. My mother passed away when I was 11 which was tough as she was extremely young herself at only 36. More recently my father passed away in 2012 from lung cancer. It&#039;s very tough losing a loved one and losing one to a disease like cancer in any form makes it even tougher due to the progression of the disease.</p><p><br /></p><p>My father is actually the reason I&#039;m on the forums today. He used to take me metal detecting when I was a young boy which I always loved. After he was diagnosed we spent a great deal of time together and he really rekindled my interest in numismatics. I really remember him though for his love of and his patience in teaching me how to fish. Which started when he&#039;d bring me with him when I was 2 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still haven&#039;t topped his biggest codfish, as he was a master at jig fishing and with current regulations I doubt I ever will. Though I&#039;m glad that a few months before he was diagnosed with cancer he was with me fishing when I caught the biggest cod I&#039;ve ever caught. I&#039;ll never forget that day I basically went from being a grown man to a kid again. I was so nervous I forgot everything he&#039;d ever taught me about fishing and spent the whole time I brought the fish in asking him if I was doing it right. My father was also a Will, as am I myself. Although he never got to actually meet my own son William the 4th, I know he&#039;d be proud and I look forward to teaching my son everything he taught me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you again for sharing as it&#039;s brought up some great memories of my own lost family members and that&#039;s truly how they continue to live on through us.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture below of my father with his biggest cod and then myself below that with my biggest one.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]452946[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]452947[/ATTACH] .[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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