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Happy Father’s Day
By Ken Horn | June 15, 2008
For Father’s Day, I offer this short article I wrote about my dad shortly after his death. It’s called “Dad’s Last Fish.”
A broad tailfin slapped the water and sent spray skyward. I watched as my dad held on desperately, a mixture of excitement and fatigue evident on his face. His gnarled, arthritic hands all but ignored his commands to raise the rod tip and take in line. This would be the fight of his life. He’d caught bigger fish—but that was when he was much younger and healthier. If he could land this fish it would be his first salmon in fresh water. And it would be the last fish of his life.
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