Communicating with Sacred Animals by Leslie Cirinesi
What Level Comes After Superhero? If you have read any of my articles in the past, you may have heard me speak of my father. Even if you have, with Father’s Day approaching, I hope you will let me take a slight detour from Animal talk, because I think it’s necessary to tell you about him. I am sure that every girl thinks that her father is a Hero, and I would be no exception. My mom was married and had six children when her young husband died suddenly. She became a young widow with only social security for an income and six children aged three to fourteen. I don’t really know how my mom made it through it all. I guess she just had to.
and loved us all as if we all were his own blood. My sister Carol even named one of her children after him.
It might have been far easier if my dad was a senior executive in some big corporation and pulled in a great salary so that we each
My dad was a bachelor and my grandmother said that he spent every penny on beer and horse racing. He wasn’t really the stable type to take on a young bride, let alone a widow with six children. Yet he did marry my mother, and he became the sole provider.
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He instantly gave up the bachelor life and became a father to a ready-made large family. If that didn’t scare him enough, to have six children and a wife to support, they decided to add one more to the mix, and I was born. I guess my dad wanted to have a child of his “own”. However, the joke was on him. Because he became so much of a father to the other six kids that they all call him “Dad” or “Pa” (as my brother Mick insists on calling him). He was a father to seven children Star Nations Magazine • June 2020 • 27
