The Garden of Him
My father raised many things, including a son who took a lifetime to appreciate his dad's gift.
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This is the fifth Father’s Day without my dad, Manuel Leite, who died after a long, brutal battle with mesothelioma and congestive heart failure.
We had a complicated relationship. When I was growing up, we didn’t “get” each other. Being an Azorean immigrant, he was preternaturally connected to the earth; I hated manual labor. I loved everything to do wi…