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Welcome to the 200th episode of the Candid Frame. When thinking about this episode, I knew I wanted someone with whom I could have a great conversation. I wanted it to be a person who I knew would be great fun to talk with. So when I found out that Dan Winners was going to be in town for an exhibit at the Fahey-Klein Gallery, I dropped him a line. And thankfully, he agreed to be a guest on the show.

This episode is going to be a little longer than the average, but as you'll listen, you'll realize

very quickly why I didn't have the heart to cut it down to 45 minutes. So I want to thank Dan for being so

gracious with this time. Though reaching 200 episodes provides others an opportunity for a lot of

navel gazing, I want to thank someone who never listened to an episode of the show and who

never owned a computer. That person is my father who died unexpectedly last

month. My father wasn't famous. He didn't accomplish things that would result in him being

profiled in a newspaper or a magazine. He was a simple, hardworking man who helped to raise

four boys and a girl. He worked for most of his life as a pressman.

It was a job that he took great pride in and whose craftsmanship

I never appreciated until I was much older.

His life was an easy one as he grew up in an abusive household

during a time when the Dominican Republic was controlled under a cruel dictatorship.

He faced many challenges and struggles in his life, particularly in his later years,

as his health slowly diminished his ability to do even the simplest things.

But despite all that, he was a man who loved his life, his family, and his friends.

Though he didn't have much, he was always generous, even with the little he might have. Well, like anyone he had his fault, he strived to be a good father, a good husband, a good worker, and a good friend.

I am grateful that I had him in my life for as long as I did and was able to share some of my professional successes with him

and though never spoke the words I knew he was very proud of me

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