This father-son relationship will teach us something that we all need to learn.
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00:00 I always wanted to ask my father one question and I could never find the
00:09 courage my whole life to ask him. My father and I, we had a very strained
00:21 relationship. He was a very tough guy, very tough guy and he took it out on
00:28 everybody around him and especially his son which was the only and the first
00:34 born male. He wanted me to what? To toughen up. At one point in time I had a
00:41 program that I taught once a month in Toronto where he lived and where I grew
00:47 up in Canada. So he'd pick me up from the airport and I'd go, "Hi dad"
00:53 and he'd go, "Hello." I'd go, "How you doing?" He'd go, "Good." I'd say, "How's mom?"
01:06 "Good. Do you have to ask so many questions?" That would be a good conversation and so
01:14 I swore to myself that one of these times when he's bringing me back and
01:18 forth to the airport I'm gonna ask him. And so he picks me up from the airport
01:22 and I go, "Dad?" He goes, "What?" I said, "I have a question for you." He goes, "What do you want?"
01:35 I take a big deep breath. I go, "Dad,
01:43 how come in my entire life
01:52 you have never ever one time ever once said to me, 'I love you.'
02:05 How come not once?"
02:08 And I'm afraid to look over. I've got my hand ready to block the punch when it
02:13 comes and I'm looking over and for the first time in my life I'm looking at
02:24 this man crying. I have never seen this man even close to cry before in my life.
02:33 Tears are flowing from his eyes, dripping all over his shirt. His chin is quivering
02:40 and all of a sudden he says, "Harv, don't you know I love you?"
02:49 I said, "Give me a hug." And he gives me a hug and I say to him in his ear, I said,
02:55 "Dad, I love you more than everything. I love you more than everything."
03:03 I'm so happy that I finally cleared this with him because just a short time later
03:11 he died and I learned one of the most important lessons of my life. Say it
03:19 while you can. If you don't tell your husband or your wife or your children
03:25 that you love them enough, you tell them now. If you don't tell your parents that
03:29 you love them, you forgive them, what you tell them now, say it while you can. Say
03:36 it while you can.
03:40 [Music]
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