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22. My Dad put in a lot of overtime to build my brother and I a rather large Lionel Train set.

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 06:26 PM

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I loved that thing.

I wish I had used to experience to understand what a transformer was and how it worked and why it was necessary, but I just played with the trains.

My father was like that; he'd do anything to keep his boys happy; work his ass off as a laborer, work two jobs or more, just to buy us stuff for Christmas.. He was that kind of guy, perhaps because his own father was such a terrible person.

There are parents who had horrible parents who repeat the behavior; and there are parents who had horrible parents who do everything to be different than the horrible parent. My father, and albeit not quite as dramatic, my wife, happily exemplify the latter.

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