S. of Elijah Turning
March 15th, 2013 by John Mansfield
I am my father’s oldest child, born when he was 40. He died at 83, so while he lived he was even in memory always older than me. I’m now 46, and I remember having a 46-year-old father. I also have a child who is forty years younger than me, and thinking of him, I am glad for my father that I was born to him.
G.
March 15, 2013
John M.,
this is an extremely simple post, but I am struggling to find a comment adequate to it. There are worlds of meaning in generations.
Vader
March 15, 2013
[My father died ten years before my oldest child was born. In fact, he died eight years before I was married. None of my own family ever knew him. It’s really too bad.]