Always There When I Need Him: If Only Reverse Had Been True

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I am presently eleven years older

than my father was when he died.

We presently have

very meaningful conversations

whenever I feel the need

to conduct them

I was twenty-one years old

when he died

but I have yet to see

a more handsome man than he

...AND...

All of the above equally applies
—with gender differential—
to my mother

 

The one exception:
I am sixteen years older
than she ever was 
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