I Learned A Lot About Being A Father The Night We Hit A Deer

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My father-in-law, Paul, is a blacksmith.  He makes chandeliers and handrails out ofhard iron that are beautiful and intricate. His hands are small, stout and coarse. He can drive a 3” spike with one swing. To sell his work at the Swiss Days Art Festival, he constructed a portable wooden forge that dissembled with the removal of a few screws. I once …