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Then your father is a FOOL!!! (I'd like to use a few more choice words to describe him, but I have to keep my language clean.
There is nothing worse than hearing your own parent say something like that.
If he doesn't have the capacity to support you or offer advice to help you through your hard times, then tell him to say nothing at all. Life is hard enough "out there."
Sorry, not very supportive advice, but I just couldn't let that one go by without acknowledging it.

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Thanks---my dad can be kind of harsh--he is btter because he messed up his life pretty bad and landed in San Quentin for a while. He is 72 now, and clean, except for a few drinks now and then, but I was the one who asked for his opinion--he went to Princeton--one intelligent man--just was absent for my sibling and I since I was about 13, then again when I turned 25. Yeah-and my mom says I'm so much like him--thanks mom! In the good ways yes. But I've never been in trouble with the law and don't intend to ever be for gods sakes. He is being supportive in his own way I guess. I have so many odds against me, my family "stuff" has affected me so bad, 37 and scared to death.