You've drawn me out of years of lurkdom to say this was beautiful.
I've experienced the pain of losing our son in May of '01 just before Father's Day (hated it ever since) and then the next Father's Day having the envy over a new nephew after a miscarriage in April of '02. Four years later, we lost my father months after the birth of my daughter. So now I have many reasons to resent Father's Day.
The raw emotions in this drew me out of lurking. It was a cathartic read for me.
