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A Tale of 3 Dads

 
By Wendy Kleinman, Bryan Painter, John David Sutter | Published: June 15, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

No matter how different dads are, most still have some things in common. They want their kids to be more successful than they were. They want them to grow up safe and strong and happy and healthy. They want to protect them.

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Father's Day: Richard Amend

Jun 14Richard Amend describes how parenting changes when you...

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Father's Day: Matias Menis

Jun 14Matias Menis talks about the birth of his child and...

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Father's Day: Edward Sallee

Jun 14Edward Sallee talks about life as a father on the road.

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And their love is unconditional, even if they sometimes have a hard time saying so.

This Father's Day, we introduce you to three dads who share all those qualities.

Matías Menis, who grew up in Argentina, hosts a sports program on Telemundo and coaches children's soccer. He wants his infant son to grow up bilingual.

Truck driver Eddie Sallee likes to mix road time with family time, taking his teen son up and down the highways with him during the summer.

And Richard Amend set his own ground rules for fatherhood in a fantasy-filled essay he wrote about a father he never really knew.

It's time to meet the daddies.

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