And it was while I was missing him so acutely that I had the realization that I didn’t have to look far to find my father on a more apparent level in my brothers and I. We had inherited his hands, his feet, his forehead, traits of his personality, habits good and bad. But on a more obscure level, our father had taught us so much that a lot of him is within us, his family; yet his essence is also within all of us present today.
