My Dad Would Have Been 100 today.

   Had my father live longer, today would have been his 100th birthday!                                                                                

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     Dad passed in 1994, Mom in 2001. And although I would have loved to have had them around till now, their deaths came before 9-11, sparing them that horror in their hometown. 

     Both of them worked in lower Manhattan, Dad in Real Estate after his career in the NYPD. His father was also a cop, though he died almost a century ago when my father was just an infant.

     Since I was the last of three children, both of my parents may have been less strict with me, I think, having already raised two other children. I know everybody says this, and it is true advice. If your parents are still living, sit them down and record a conversation about their lives. I wish I had insisted on it with mine.