My mom drove up this past week, and surprised me with a dozen boxes of my dad’s books. My older brothers got his tools, but that’s ok. He and I and didn’t have a good relationship until near the end, but he loved reading and that was one of our points of connection.
I now have, in addition to some cool old Ford and John Deere manuals, the complete works of Zane Grey, Louis L’amour, and his set of the Everyman’s library.
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My mom apologized that some of the books have grease stains from his lunch-break reading, but that’s exactly how I wanted them. Like many of us, I only appreciated the depth and complexity of this “uneducated” mechanic once he was gone.
