# My Fathers Final Gift

<http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/my-father-final-gift/>

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- Saved: March 23, 2012 (2012-03-23T06:37:41Z)
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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Twenty five days before my father died, on my birthday exactly six years ago, he gave me a present. He had the sparkle back in his eyethe one that had been reduced by pancreatic cancer to an ashen emberwhen he gave it to me. It was a small package, rectangular in shape, in crisp brown-paper wrapping. Twine neatly wrapped around the corners, crisscrossing back and forth arriving at a bow crafted by the sure hands of a man who built his first model airplane at age seven.

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## Elsewhere

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