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backbonus t1_j5t252w wrote

Sorry for your loss. Lost my dad in ‘17 and literally just looked at his remeberance card this morning. Looking at this photo, his confidence is evident. Being this Reddit, tell us, did you get the looks or the brains?

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a_friendly_hobo OP t1_j5t2hx1 wrote

I've got his chin and jaw line, but they're kind of hidden under an overweight man's face. When I was a kid we looked alike, but as I got older I took more after my Irish mum's side.

When dad gained weight due to cancer medication though, the resemblance came out again.

As for my brains, nah. I never took to coding and computer science, I'm more of a creative. While my dad was a whizz with DB2 databases and mass migrations of data (which once upon a time he was paid handsomely for), I've chosen the path of a VFX compositing artist.

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backbonus t1_j5t63x7 wrote

Nice. Thanks for sharing, and again, sorry for your loss. We are all destined to be orphans. Lost my mum in ‘86; dad in ‘17.

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a_friendly_hobo OP t1_j5t92je wrote

Don't I know it man. Lost ma back in '19. She had some old school cool from modelling in the 80s, just need to find the picture.

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