“My father lived by very rigid patterns, doing the same things day after day. He was very meticulous, very unemotional. He was a ‘good’ man, as far as doing all the things a ‘good father’ is supposed to do,” Chapman struggled to explain. “He never drank and he was always home. But there was an iciness that I felt from him all my childhood. We went to the Boy Scouts together and the Indian Guides and all that father-son stuff that society says a good dad is supposed to do with his kids. But I don’t recall that I ever had a conversation with him about anything that was real. I don’t recall that
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