# Note

> There is a line I keep coming back to. "By the time I realized that my father was probably right, I had a son who thought I was wrong." It is a small...

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May 19, 2026

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# Note · May 19, 2026

There is a line I keep coming back to. “By the time I realized that my father was probably right, I had a son who thought I was wrong.”

It is a small line. It does most of the work of a fifty-year arc in one sentence.

Go easy with your fathers and elders. They were right earlier than you knew.

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