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You want to know what it was like the first time my dad met my first grade teacher?
It was a couple weeks after the start of classes at my Catholic school in Minneapolis. My dad, a Black doctor, came with my mom to meet my teacher a nun we’ll just call Sister M.
The first thing Sister M said to my dad, the very first thing she said upon meeting this man for the first time, was, “Are you the real father?”
“Are YOU the real father?”
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My dad was in his 30s at the time, a sharp dresser and very well spoken. He had practiced medicine for over a decade, performed hundreds maybe even thousands of surgeries, and beyond all that, he was and is a very good dad. A dad who was and is present, compassionate and fun, even as he never hesitates to call me out and hold me accountable.
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