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There is a particular kind of love that fathers give that is almost impossible to describe directly. It does not arrive in long conversations or carefully chosen words. It does not express itself through grand gestures or tearful speeches. It arrives, most reliably, in the form of a pun so terrible that it makes every person in the room groan simultaneously — and then, despite themselves, laugh. It arrives in the quiet, daily, unannounced acts of a person who shows up without