Your favorite memory with your dad?

1) He taught me how to catch a ball when I was eight.
2) Over the course of living with him for ten years he taught me what a man is by being my role model.
3) When he visited me last time in my country I asked him "what is a man" and he gave a memorable answer.

I did meet my biological Father  once in 1951 aged five

but can't remember much about the occasion


other than he had blond hair and a beard...


on reflection I suspect  that was  due to his Danish 

country of origin.

He and my mother never married hence my mothers maiden name

became my surname and not Hoffgard which was his. 

I grew up with a stepfather from the age of 6 to 15. Stepfather did not work out for my mother or me. Did not meet my biological dad until I was 41 years old. He was living with a woman who was hostile toward me and my children, so I only saw him a handful of times. I read on the Internet a few years ago that he died in 2008 - his "current" family did not let me know.

It is so difficult, if you don't grow up with someone in your life, to establish a relationship with them later on. I have three half-sisters and a half-brother who could be family to me, but I just cannot form the habit of keeping in touch with them. They knew about me, though, and I would love to ask why no one told me when my father died.