20 Years Gone but Forever with Me

 

Thank you for sneaking critters home under your coat.
Thank you for having your mole removed to relieve my fears of doing the same.
Thank you for teaching me The Golden Rule.
Thank you for helping strangers.
Thank you for taking us out of school to ride the rails in India.
Thank you for embarrassing the crap out of me when you picked me up at school

                  wearing a wig and a pink nightgown.
Thank you for Maori war chants, Johnny Cash,  and Mahalia Jackson.
Thank you for saying Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down!