My birth father visited me while I was living in Nevada. I remember some of it.
I remember we went to the pool a lot. And I remember we stayed int eh Frontier Hotel, which is not there on the strip anymore. I should say Las Vegas is nothing like it was in the 1970's but, I will say the Flamingo hotel was there, and it still is there.
I remember we stayed maybe two nights with him. It was the third time in my life I saw him, Fourth if you count that time he walked right on by us in the Neil Diamond Concert in Salt Lake City.
I have pictures of that time. I do not have many with him. But, I will say that I have these pictures and the more I am going through this human experience the more I appreciate the pictures.
I did have a favorite doughnut. It was a Hostess Raspberry Filled. You know the kind with the powered sugar covering it and a sort of cake doughnut with a raspberry filling. I loved those but because we did not have a lot of money, mom did not buy them often. maybe once a year or less. But how I loved them.
Daddy asked me and my sister what we wanted for breakfast, and I said that with chocolate milk, and D said she wanted Hostess Old Fashioned Doughnuts, which was her favorite. He replied with, I am going to go get them, you girls wait here. I do not know what time that was, but it was night and we had spend the evening in the Circus Circus playing all the games and after a long walk on The Strip. We had spent the day swimming the pool and so, I was ready for bed. I woke up the next morning with my dad gone and my sister in the bathroom. He came back while we waited. He did not have doughnuts. We went to JB's Big Boy, and ate pancakes. But I really wanted doughnuts.
My dad left that fast. As fast as he came, he was gone. I thought I was going to see him again soon.
We always think that things will be the way we want them when we are young and are promised so many things.
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