A Writer's Diary: Finding My Father's Voice via The Kindness of a Stranger

Sometimes, out of the blue, great gifts are bestowed. And that's what happened to me a few months ago when a man I did not know came into possession of a recording I had searched for almost my entire life.  You can read all about it in an essay I wrote for the New York Times' Modern Love feature: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/fas....

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I am still processing what the gift of this recording means to me.  I veer from amazement, joy, bittersweet angst, humility, wonder, and then onto something I can't even name. 

I hope you'll read the essay.  I hope it will strike chords deep in your heart.  I hope that as Father's Day approaches--a day that in the past has for me been full of homilies of abandonment--you will whisper into the ear of the person you love most, "I cherish you."

Heart and soul,
Connie May