Please, there is just one more thing I want to ask you. PHILOSOPHER: What is it? YOUTH: In the end, were you able to repair your relationship with your father? PHILOSOPHER: Yes, of course. I think so. My father fell ill, and in the last few years of his life, it was necessary for me and my family to take care of him. Then one day, when I was taking care of him as usual, my father said, ‘Thank you.’ I had not known my father possessed such a word in his vocabulary, and I was astonished and felt grateful for all the days that had passed. Through the long years of my caregiving life, I had tried
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Repairing the relationship with ones father.
