He volunteered advice for a while. But then, in more recent years, politics and issues gave way to talk of empty errands and, always, to illness.
After much thought and practice “You can do whatever you have to do. ”, one night last winter, I sat down by his bed and remembered for an instant those terrifying dark holes in another house 35 years before. I told my father how much I loved him. I described all the things people were doing for him. But, I said, he kept eating poorly, hiding in his room and violating the doctor’s orders. No amount of love could make someone else care about life, I said; it was a two-way street. He wasn’t doing his best. The decision was his.
He said he knew how hard my words had been to say and how proud he was of me. “I had the best teacher, ”I said. “You can do whatever you have to do. ”He smiled a little. And we shook hands, firmly, for the last time.
Several days later, at about 4 A. M. , my mother heard dad shuffling about their dark room. “I have some things I have to do, ”he said. He paid a bundle of bills. He composed for my mother a long list of legal and financial what-to-do’s“in case of emergency”. And he wrote me a note.
Then he walked back to his bed and laid himself down. He went to sleep, naturally. And he did not wake up.
【文章大意】文章主要讲述了作者对自己父亲的回忆, 围绕着父子关系的变化展开, 表达了对父亲的爱。
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