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The iron is hot!

Let me tell ya a story.  I was about to move. It was time to get the U-Haul, pack up and head to the new city. City? I was a small town boy. At twenty something, I had just learned to wash my own clothes.  Ironing was important too, back then.  We did not have the new materials that are guaranteed wrinkle-free. I went to do some errands on packing day, time spent with the fiancĂ©.  The day was just weeks away.  We had much to do before I went to live two and half hours away. It was an eternity from each other. I got home to daddy.  He was livid.  He had taken time off, packed for hours and expected me.  The truck was loaded.  The sun was setting.  We had a short stunted conversation; it seemed to take hours to get through it. He asked where I'd been, what I had done, why was I not there to help.  I stumbled through giving reasons only to sound like excuses.  He'd cut me off; I'd try again.  I felt guilty; yes, guilty as cha...