| Story ID: | 121 |
| Written by: | Darrell Lindsey |
| Story type: | Family History |
| Location: | Nacogdoches Texas United States |
| Year: | 1964 |
| Person: | mother |
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They Called Him L.O.
L.O. the boy grew up in the Depression era.
L.O. the man never forgot that.
He had a loving mother and a cold father--
in fact,his father loved cats
more than he did his kids.
L.O. the man never forgot that, either.
This dark-haired Vitalis and Old Spice man
was a hometown football legend,
a painter and carpenter by trade
who beat the demons of his alcoholism
by sweating and shaking them out
in his bedroom many years ago.
Yes, I was as sad as I'll ever be again
after I received a phone call
more than fifteen years ago
(from a complete stranger)
and learned that at age 66,
that brown-eyed man was gone.
You see, they called him L.O.--
but I called him Daddy.
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