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      <description><![CDATA[Every year, same question. 'What do you want?' Same answer. 'I don't know. Nothing.' But it's not that dads don't want anything. It's that what they want doesn't come in a box.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nobody pulls you aside and says, 'Hey man, here's what's actually coming.' So here it is. Everything I wish someone had told me before my first kid changed every single thing.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Junior was three weeks old when I sat in the car in my own driveway for twenty minutes, engine off, staring at the garage door. Nobody tells new dads the truth about what's coming. So I will.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Your mailbox is full of ads, bills, and credit card offers. But somewhere between the junk and the spam folder, we lost something that actually meant something. Here's why physical letters still hit different.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[It was a Saturday morning. You walked into the garage and saw it. The tools collecting dust. The running shoes still laced from the last time. You stood there, felt that pull, and then heard something stir upstairs.]]></description>
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