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You were born on a wet Sunday afternoon and my eyes were wet but not from the rain but crying with joy at your arrival in the world.<\/p>\n
We were in Pizza Hut when you were 3 and you asked the waitress for a drink unprompted.<\/p>\n
In your first play, as an angel.<\/p>\n
Your first joke when we drove past a cemetery and asked \u201cDad, how many dead people are in there? I replied I don\u2019t know, you said \u201cAll of them\u201d and couldn\u2019t contain yourself that you\u2019d caught me out.<\/p>\n
When you got a credit at junior school for reciting 1 to 10 in Spanish from listening to my tapes in the car<\/p>\n
Going with you to school because you were being called racist names<\/p>\n
Taking you to swimming lessons every week and me sometimes falling asleep at the side of the pool from the heat and boredom!<\/p>\n
Spending Saturday mornings at Woolworths to swap Pokemon cards<\/p>\n
Having to be your football coach at Queensbury so you could play football because there was no-one else. No more Sunday morning lie ins!<\/p>\n
The life lesson at the amusement fair when you begged to go on the first ride at the Leeds Valentine fair and I asked you to look around first and how upset you became when you realised the better rides were at the back and you had no more money.<\/p>\n
Taking you to the library every week and Waterstones book store sometimes to get you reading books.<\/p>\n
Agreeing a deal, I would always buy you any book you wanted<\/p>\n
Singing in the car with your brothers, the chorus of R Kelly\u2019s Ignition<\/p>\n
Offering you the choice as a teenager of \u00a320 per month pocket money or for me to pay for your things on an ad hoc basis. You quickly realised the ad hoc was a better deal.<\/p>\n
Taking you to see Lord of the Rings and having to leave because the Black Riders scared you when they came on screen at the beginning of the film. I went back on another occasion without you.<\/p>\n
Taking you to see Harry Potter and you being a film critic saying it\u2019s nowhere near as good as the book and they\u2019ve missed a large chunk of his upbringing.<\/p>\n
Going to Halifax dry ski slope to learn how to ski and you being a competent skier<\/p>\n
Car boot lunch picnics at Halifax because we were there all day<\/p>\n
Every month, going to Castleford ski slope and every so often Chill Factor to practice skiing on snow<\/p>\n
Paying for you to go to Austria on the school ski trip and how proud you were that you were a competent skier and assisted others on the slope<\/p>\n
Your disappointment at Christmas when you only got a selection box because that was the agreement for you to be able to go to Canada, you would forego any large presents on your birthday or Christmas. You told me afterwards, it was worth it<\/p>\n
Our first Skiing holiday to Bulgaria with your brothers<\/p>\n
Our skiing holiday to France and the picture of you and your brothers assuming different poses in the snow. A picture of which I cherish.<\/p>\n
You conning me to take you to the school carol service at 16 with your grandma, to find out that you weren\u2019t in it and just wanted a lift!<\/p>\n
Taking you to basketball training<\/p>\n
You laughing uncontrollably when I was choking on some sweetcorn and it reappeared from my nose!<\/p>\n
You introduced me to your first girlfriend<\/p>\n
Taking you up to Northumbria University to start your studies<\/p>\n
You ringing me up for the chicken pasta recipe to cook for your Uni friends<\/p>\n
Pride when you gained your Master\u2019s distinction and being at the ceremony<\/p>\n
You asking me to chill if I was annoyed at someone for having a go at you. You\u2019d say \u201cDad, it\u2019s ok\u201d<\/p>\n
They were so many, many more but these are the highlights.<\/p>\n
I will always love you son with all of my heart, being and soul.<\/p>\n
Rest, my firstborn, beautiful and intelligent boy.<\/p>\n
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