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"Now that I&amp;amp;#8217;m a father, I realized something about my dad I&amp;amp;#8217;d never really thought about&amp;amp;#133;I&amp;amp;#8217;ve always wanted to be a father. I was never ready, of course &amp;amp;#8212; I always thought like six months from now was perfect. But that&amp;amp;#8217;s what most men are like, I think. That&amp;amp;#8217;s a different post, though. But the fact remains: I always wanted to be a father, never seriously considered the idea that I wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be, even if I never got married, even if I was shooting blanks. (Though I did always imagine that I&amp;amp;#8217;d be married, and shooting very very impressive bullets.) Blossoms told me the other day that I was a great dad. That I&amp;amp;#8217;d taken to it immediately - she&amp;amp;#8217;d wondered if perhaps it&amp;amp;#8217;d take me a while to get used to the notion of fatherhood, because some her friends had been that way, and she says she&amp;amp;#8217;d have been fine with that. But I was obsessed with Lil Blossoms (what&amp;amp;#8217;s your baby&amp;amp;#8217;s name going to be?) from the moment I found out that the sperm and egg had in fact successfully made each other&amp;amp;#8217;s acquaintance. Blossoms wanted to know why I thought that was. And I started thinking about my father. Now I&amp;amp;#8217;m not sure whether it&amp;amp;#8217;s nature or nurture, the way a man takes to fatherhood. And there are lots of ways of being a good dad - being the smothering, tummy-kissing, bad-poetry-writing type like me might not even be so good! In fact I&amp;amp;#8217;m saying right here that I&amp;amp;#8217;m an agnostic when it comes to fathering techniques. Strong silent type, big goofy type &amp;amp;#8212; there are a lot of ways to do it. But I am saying that being a father makes me think about what a wonderful father my dad was and is. Yes, he&amp;amp;#8217;s impatient and always was. Yes, he calls me seventy three times a day and would move into the broom closet if we let him. Yes he isn&amp;amp;#8217;t always the greatest at really listening to what you&amp;amp;#8217;re saying. But, besides paying enormous amounts of attention to me, and giving me copious helpings of unconditional love, and lots of other things I&amp;amp;#8217;m not going to get into right now because it&amp;amp;#8217;d take me three years to write it all down - besides all that, there&amp;amp;#8217;s one thing he did that really stands out to me now. I always knew that being a father was his favorite thing in life, the thing he was most proud of, the thing that he had a real passion for. Maybe that helped me feel the same way about LB, too. What was your dad like? Do you want the father of your children to be like him? How would you want him to be different, or the same? Photo: iStock Get Glamour Wherever You Go! Follow us on Twitter. Friend us on Facebook. Add us to your Google homepage."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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