Thank You for Re-Parenting my Children

A Father’s Day/Independence Day/RNC Gratitude List

Ian Belknap

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My countrymen:

I am fallible. I am wrongheaded and weak. So, on behalf of the sons you are daily improving by your example, I thank you. These sons of mine, hobbled as they have been by the many fatuous lessons I have attempted to impart to them, are ennobled by the ideals of manhood and integrity you provide them. They can tell you themselves, these sons of mine, that mine is a trustless and shabby little credo, and that its precepts leave my boys…

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Ian Belknap

Founder WRITE CLUB. Essays, satire: Rumpus, Chicago Trib, Chicago Reader, American Theatre Mag, etc. Partner & I sold pilot to Sony-Tristar writerianbelknap.com