RP: Dad Was Sentimental

Dad poured himself a brandy on the rocks, sat in the living room, and listened to Dinah Washington or Sarah Vaughn or Teresa Brewer and he went into a world of his own sentimentality. He was very sentimental about my mother. Numerous times he found ways to get me alone and he’d tell me, while drunk, how much he loved my mother and how he could never live without her, and would weep. He was sentimental about Christmas, about the USA, and about his family. My dad’s sentimental side surprised people sometimes because he so often was playing the role of being gruff or because his sense of humor. Dad’s heart was on his sleeve. I’m like my dad in this way, especially in private. I’m deeply nostalgic and tend to live parts of my life more romantically than logically. I learned it from Dad/Raymond Pert, Kellogg Bloggin’. More: Here are some things (dad) taught me .

Question: Are you sentimental? Or do you hide your emotions?