Twenty years ago ... I was spending a lot of time in *this* living room ... with *these* characters.Monty is the brown and white one whose face is turned away from the camera ... and Shelby is on the other side, posing for the picture like the photogenic girl she was (she and I had a special connection, and she took ME on walks frequently back then -- she was one who, despite me holding one end of a leash, had to have the other end that came off of her collar in her mouth during our walks so that people knew who was really doing what).
There in the middle? Why that's Denny ... as in the Whitman family patriarch ... as in DJ's dad ... as in my dad ... because back then, DJ took me home as a "stray" to his family, and that family invited me in as one of their own. And because, as someone who had some struggles with biological family early in life, I was extra lucky to reap the benefits tenfold when I got out of that situation with non-related loved ones who supported and loved me as a *logical* family.
So on this holiday weekend in 2016 ... happy Father's Day to Denny -- with this picture from 1996.
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