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My father was a soft, gentle type of man. If my mother was cross he would wipe away the tears - real, role-reversal stuff. So why don't I hold him in high regard? I remember John Mortimer writing about the death of his own father, 'At last a man is free to step out from the shadow into the sunlight'. Never meant anything to me, but it will when my mother dies. - Gerrard, 43, father of two

 


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