A handful of CTA bus drivers and supervisors celebrated their retirement yesterday, and I learned that they're each gifted a bus stop sign depicting a custom-drawn "bus route" that originates at the garage they were based out of and goes to the block they live on, which is very cute

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It went as well as these can go.

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We chatted about what it meant to be a man, our own families, and trying to be better dads than our own fathers. It was a lovely day. He wasn’t a star. He was just a decent guy with the courage to show his emotions to a stranger who was also a writer. If you want a role model for young men: he’s it

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Many years ago, I met Patrick Stewart. He’d read a piece I’d written about my difficult relationship with my dad. I was supposed to interview him about the film he’d just made but he didn’t care about that. He’d had a hard time with his dad too and the pair of us just talked about fathers and sons

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give this man several medals for pulling this off, just an absolute work of art

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