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I'm Major Jackson, and this

I'm Major Jackson,

and this is the slowdown. Let me say to you if you haven't heard. When it comes to my children, I am a sappy father.

The first time Langston took off on a bicycle with no training wheels, I was the proudest. Picture of him in his Taekwondo uniform,

scinched with his white belt, same thing.

When Anastasia performed her floor routine

at gymnastics practice, not a meat mind you, I was the proudest.

When Rome hit a wiffle ball off a cone, which any four-year-old could do,

I was the proudest.

I know it comes with the job, this adulation of my children, but nothing gripped me and had me tearing up more than that moment when Ry in costume saying Simon and Garfuncles like a bridge over troubled order.

All the kids in his elementary school play The The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe gave their best.

At the time, I was going through all kinds of personal challenges, doubts, questioning so much of my life.

I stood in the back taking pictures and the lyrics, which I've heard well over several hundred times pierced me to my core.

I could not help but believe Romey was singing right to me.

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