The Paternity Test: Good Dads Make Every Day a Father’s Day

The Paternity Test: Good Dads Make Every Day a Father’s Day
Biba Kajevic
Jeff Minick
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More than 10 years ago, my daughter and her family visited me in Asheville, North Carolina. My eldest grandson was about 5 years old. Like lots of kids his age, he adored comic book characters with superhuman powers, and unbeknownst to me, his uncle, my eldest son, told Michael that Grandpa was a superhero. He told the kid: Every night, your grandpa goes out into the city and fights the bad guys.

Later that afternoon, Michael asked me about a sword and scabbard hanging on the wall of my bedroom, a ceremonial sword I had carried long ago as an eighth-grader in military school. After taking that rickety apparatus from the wall, I held it to my side, drew the sword from its scabbard, and with a flourish, aimed it toward the ceiling.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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