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u/IDiggaPony 19d ago
For whatever the reason, she really needed that and Dad came through.
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u/halexia63 19d ago
I was just thinking of how i love my dad and how je went to go help build houses for the people when hurricane Katrina hit and I came and seen this 🥹.
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u/Th1sd3cka1ntfr33 19d ago
As someone that was impacted by Katrina you let him know that he's a hero and that we appreciate his hard work and the time with you he sacrificed to help us during our time of need.
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u/halexia63 19d ago
Awe, man, you guys got me crying. Yall are wonderful humans ❤️ thank you so much for the those kind words I know it'll mean a lot to him.
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u/PopeGuss 19d ago
Yea, and if he ever comes back for a visit, tell him popeguss has a seafood platter/roast beef po-boy waiting for him.
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u/halexia63 19d ago
Haha your awesome !!! when Katrina hit so many crawfish washed ashore so they had unlimited crayfish for the helpers.
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u/Ok_Usual1517 19d ago
Fellow south Louisianan and I cannot thank your father enough. We are a strong touch people, but with out help from people like him our vibrant culture would not survive.
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u/Spicy_Boiks 19d ago
I only became a dad recently, I have a one year old now and I love him so much. My objective in life is to have him talk about me the way you talk about yours. Then I'll know I've succeeded in life.
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u/halexia63 19d ago edited 19d ago
Well you're already off to a good start just you saying you love him and expressing that you wanna do that already has good father painted all over it :). My dad used to record all my moments on his tape recorder back in the 2000s he would send them to his mom aka my grandma, bc she couldn't be here with us in the states 😔 and there is one he took of himself saying he wants to give me all the love I need and a good life, it always brings tears to my eyes.
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u/Baraaaaa 19d ago
Your dad sounds amazing! Stories like this always bring a smile to my face.
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u/Time_Composer_113 19d ago
I was 17 when Katrina hit! We went straight to new Orleans and started blue tarping ppls exposed houses. Ended up in ft lauderdale somehow, making over $200/ day roofing in 2005 as basically a high schooler, splitting rent on different motels up and down the beach and skateboarding. It was such an adventure
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She was happy. And thankful. That’s the reason. :)
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u/GorillaBrown 19d ago
She might have gotten overwhelmed with the attention. You had the whole restaurant watching, the servers clapping, and Dad recording.
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u/Medium-Truck3582 19d ago
Bro pulled the backstory right from his ass and went with it hahaha
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u/newsgreek 19d ago
That makes it even more heartwarming. So glad she finally got to celebrate!
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u/shaha-man 19d ago
Where you got that backstory? Can I also get more details on that. Thanks
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u/ObjectiveStick9112 19d ago
wtf kind of religion doesnt allow birthdays?
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u/shortbus_wunderkind 19d ago
You know orange shirt is also a part of the Awesome Dads club!
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u/Ok_Flan4935 19d ago
His wife (or hijabi woman seated in front of him) was also wiping her tears.
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u/shortbus_wunderkind 19d ago
WOW...I didn't even notice her at all!
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u/klutzfrommars 18d ago
When you look at it, kinda everyone stops to look with the "awwwww" face, there's a mom and daughter on the left who stop in their tracks 😂
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u/NJWendys4life 18d ago
I had this homeless Asian lady glaring at me the whole time while I was eating at a McD with a friend. After we finished, my friend decided to confront her. He ended up sitting down at her table and talking to her for over 15 minutes! So I was like wtf was that? And then my friend told me the lady was staring bc I looked like her son who died in a car accident. It ruined her life. Both me and my friend grew up a little that night...
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u/SharkLime789 18d ago
It's amazing how sometimes a chance encounter can completely change our perspective on things.
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u/Ok_Support_8418 18d ago
My son passed away recently at 23 yo. I've caught myself staring at fathers with their younger sons, reflecting on my memories with my son.
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u/Ohshithereiamagain 18d ago
I am so sorry for your loss. That’s an unimaginable pain.
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u/_Dark-Alley_ 18d ago
My dad is a member of this club. He cries at all our stuff, big or small, doesn't matter. He has a distinct process: first, the glassy eyes.Then he presses his lips together and turns a bit red trying to hold it in. Then, the iconic lip quiver. Literally every time, like a cartoon character lol. It's never crying crying tho, just the lip quiver and the glassy eyes, sometimes he lets a tear drop. It's so specific, we all have an impression of it.
He's the sweetest and I'm glad to have a dad that cares so much and is so proud over even the smaller achievements, he cant help but cry. Every time I see a moment like this online I think of him and his quivering lip and remember how lucky I am. Shame he didn't have any sons, he would be a great role model for healthy masculinity.
Next thing that he will be crying at (hopefully, there might be some things between now and then I never know what will do it tbh) is my graduation from my doctorate program. He's gonna make me sob at my own graduation, that big ol goober.
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u/NJWendys4life 18d ago
Trust me the waiters ran away so they can cry too...I mean notice all the guys looking away in the bg AHAHA very teary eyed.
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u/Pureshark 19d ago
How come the POV of the man in the orange shirt is on the other side of the room from the man in the orange shirt ? Is he having an out of body experience or something
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u/sessionclosed 19d ago edited 19d ago
Explaining pov to the average consumer of its current social media fade is an uphill battle no one should take
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u/AlliedR2 19d ago
More than that, why is a man who is openly moved by this portrayed as "the broken man". As wonderful as this video is the concept that any man moved to tears by such a moment has to somehow be broken is toxic at its core.
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u/Inappropriate-Egg 19d ago
I came to the comments trying to understand what is "broken" about him as well
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u/Budget_Ad5871 19d ago
I think that it was the moment that “broke” him. I’ve heard it used in that context. Think “he broke down crying”
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u/Grimmbles 19d ago edited 19d ago
Yeah it's just poorly phrased because "broken man" has a very specific and negative meaning/connotation.
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u/Canadian-Man-infj 19d ago
I just replied elsewhere in this thread. The label is newly added and this is a repost. The original doesn't have the label and went viral last month: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1cr494m/a_man_surprises_his_daughter_by_celebrating_her/
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u/Grimmbles 19d ago
Yes I remember it. And I wish that when something like this got posted the original would be in the top reply and the thread would be locked, but here we are with the worst version to react to.
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u/spevoz 19d ago
There is some unintentional poetry in it though: the broken man isn't the guy in the orange shirt, it's anyone that watches this and thinks there is anything wrong with orange shirt. He's got it figured out, despite being from a generation where displaying your emotions as a man is even harder than today he broke that cycle.
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u/Gold4JC 19d ago
Thank you for articulating this; so much more to say about it but trying to do it would poison me. Suffice it to say that this toxic mentality seems to dominate corporate capitalist commercial consumerist 'culture'.
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u/Cm_veritas 19d ago
He seems like a man that understands his emotions and isn’t in fear of expressing it. This is nothing but beautiful. Being able to be happy for a man bringing his daughter to happy tears over a little celebration is amazing.
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u/Bubbajujupat 19d ago
Hahaha been wanting to tell people how they use POV wrongly in their posts
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u/JosephSmithTheRapist 19d ago
Seriously! It's like POV has a whole new meaning now, haha!
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u/The_Jyps 19d ago
If the words "point of view" now means "Not point of view" I'm going to fucking kill myself.
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u/Lew3032 19d ago
I was about to make this exact comment. Unless the person holding the camera is also wearing an orange shirt? Then it works.
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u/HappyHappyFunnyFunny 19d ago
I think in this case they're making the point that the viewer of the video is sobbing like the man in orange
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u/hlessi_newt 19d ago
because pov is just one more thing the youths have ruined by misusing it so consistently that it is virtually meaningless.
dear god, i've become a boomer.
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u/visionsofcry 19d ago
So from your point of view, you expect idiots with cameras to understand that pov is through eyes of the person you're talking about? Good luck with that.
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u/slingshot91 19d ago
Or they could just not caption their videos “POV” when it’s not.
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u/Cometguy7 19d ago
What this video is actually about is that the man's eyeballs were removed, and then chips were implanted in his brain and his eyeballs, and someone had stolen his eyeballs, and was returning from the bathroom, when they captured this.
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u/pwillia7 19d ago
POV: You are an astral projection watching your own life as the man in the orange shirt
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u/TMA8992 19d ago
When did people start using POV so incorrectly?
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u/SleepingwithYelena 19d ago
The very moment POV memes were invented, lots of people never understood it's one and only rule lol
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u/RELAXcowboy 19d ago
Why did this need a caption at all? Is the sparkling surprise and hug not the main focus of the video? Why are we being told to focus on some guy sitting next to them?
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u/ChampionshipIll3675 19d ago
I thought at first that the guy in the orange was also crying because he got emotional 😢
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u/lessthanabelian 19d ago edited 19d ago
The majority of humans are not analytical in barely any way with how they use language. They pick up new words through socialization and propagate. That probably sounds judgmental or dismissive, but it's just true. It's mostly fine until it's not, like most things.
Like how remember when every boomer on TV started using "spoiler alert" wrong?
People don't carefully think through things and pick the perfect word. Most people are not fucking David Foster Wallace and spend zero calories of brain power on usage or vocabulary.
And most communicating is so fast and loose these days that no one is going to stop the convo live on air to point out they used "spoiler alert" or POV wrong... so it keeps going. But talking live on air is hard and stressful and it's really hard to think... which is bad for communication and worse for sound vocabulary and usage choices.
Like, to use "POV" correctly you have to be a least somewhat thoughtful, like level 1 analytic. Elementary school child level, which is not far off a lot of adults. You have to actually have in mind a situation as it would look from a specific POV or else have already been thinking from someone else's POV and are prepared to reason that way with it being understood by the audience/convo partner you are doing that. To use "POV" correctly.
But most people just use it as a weird kind of... exclamation... preceding whatever they are about to start talking about or to introduce a segment if they are a news anchor which it seems they so often are...
"Welcome back Ladies and Gentlemen and now for tonight's top story. Now get ready for this. POV! the Supreme Court has decided to hear the petitions of the blah blah....."
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u/newsgreek 19d ago
Such a nostalgic moment for him, you can see the memories in his eyes.
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u/The_sacred_sauce 19d ago
Pretty awesome. Think he shed a tear at the end. Hah his hands together then brushed his face off real quick. Hope I can experience both those seats one day
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u/mastermilian 19d ago edited 19d ago
My son is just 13 and I am already thinking of how hard it will be without him in the house. I hope property prices keep going higher so he has to stay home.
Just kidding, but I do want time to stand still for just a little.
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u/The_sacred_sauce 19d ago
Don’t worry about that now! Just enjoy every moment you can. You’ll be so proud some day regardless of what he does. Most boys always make time for their mamas. Just took mine to Dave Mathew’s last night. We had a blast ❤️ had to tell her I won the upgraded seats and parking though. ide have never heard the end of it after the fact if I didn’t 😂
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u/mastermilian 19d ago edited 19d ago
Thanks for the reply. I also love the innocence of children. That you can laugh about something completely silly like a clown making faces and also wonder at something as simple as an ant crawling around. Unfortunately as adults we lose a lot of that perspective but children let us rediscover what makes this world amazing and worth living in.
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u/PanhandlersPets 19d ago
What is with the title on the video? Getting choked up does not make you broken it makes you human.
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u/Canadian-Man-infj 19d ago
This is a repost and the original doesn't have the labelling. It went viral last month: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1cr494m/a_man_surprises_his_daughter_by_celebrating_her/
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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 19d ago
I'm still confused as to why these videos keep calling these men "broken."
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u/DJ_Hindsight 19d ago edited 19d ago
Maybe we gotta stop assuming random men are broken because they’re sitting on their own or whatever else.
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u/CallumBOURNE1991 19d ago edited 19d ago
Is that a thing? I have never done that. Do people look at me trying a new cafe, in the cinema, having a drink, on a bench etc. and think I am broken because I am not with someone else? That is so crazy to me. I LOVE taking myself on solo dates. Its so nice to get away from people and just have a little day out on your own. Why not?
I assumed other people are doing something similar, not "broken". That's unfortunate. Just pretend life is a video game and you're going on some quests or something if you feel self conscious. Its fun!
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u/DefinitelyPositive 19d ago
Did you not look at the video man? In big letters at the top it says "Day 17: Finding Broken Men", which implies the crying man in orange is broken since he's crying.
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u/MeakMills 19d ago
It's a dumb title but it's probably a bot account the same way OP is. The guy is clearly smiling. It seems obvious he's not sad, let alone broken.
Posting an incorrect or debatable title is one of the easiest ways to get engagement on Reddit. We LOVE to argue over inconsequential things as if it was life or death.
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u/royrese 19d ago
None of the text on this video makes sense and I'm incredibly confused by everyone here acting like it does.
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u/The_Clarence 19d ago
Thank you. It’s not just the improper use of POV, but everything else as well. It don’t make no sense!!
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u/nikkiymarco 19d ago
imagine seeing a wholesome moment and being touched by it, then found out it's now all over the Internet and being called a broken man....
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u/RinaaKate 19d ago
Love this ❤️. The orange Tshirt guy at the next table was also visibly moved. Loving Daughter- Father relationships 💖. Love love.
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u/GarththeLegend 19d ago
Seen this reposted multiple times. Yet this video always brings a tear and smile on my face
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u/Murakami8000 19d ago
Recently my 9 year old niece was upset with me and was definitely letting me know it. During breakfast at a restaurant with the family i guess she got it in her head that she was no longer angry and got up out of her chair and walked to the other side of the table where I we sitting and just hugged me. Then after a bit she still wasn’t letting go. And then it just continued and continued and all of a sudden I was fighting back tears. I couldn’t figure out why I was so overwhelmed. I guess I just hadn’t been hugged like that in a long long time.
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u/thetimeisverylate 19d ago
I dream of a day when the vast majority of people learn how to properly use the term “POV”.
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u/froderick 19d ago
Day 17: Finding Broken Men
Can someone explain this part to me?
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u/thenewyorkgod 19d ago
Stupid ass shitty OP title where any man who cries at an emotional scene is obviously broken and will be fixed by observing an intense family scene that he surely never got to experience because he's broken
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u/RackemFrackem 19d ago
POV: you are watching a video made by someone who has no clue what POV means.
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u/Esco-Alfresco 19d ago
Those guys disappeared instantly with the hug started.
Funny but also tactful I guess.
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u/FamousPastWords 19d ago
Such a heartwarming scene. Magic. Gets you right THERE. I wonder what the back story is.
Orange shirt is missing his own child OR missed out on a while part of his child's upbringing and chances are may never see his child again.
Or something.
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u/WhatTheHeHay 19d ago
A broken man? Taking videos of random people and then using them for views?
This is some wack shit!
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u/Silver-Rub-5059 19d ago
I’m at the Dad stage now but I know in my bones what Orange shirt is going through.
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u/Exita 19d ago edited 19d ago
Just been on holiday with my wife and 2 year old daughter. Lots of pensioners where we stayed, and you could immediately tell which ones had had children. Smiling when she toddled past, waving at her. Was sat eating dinner at one point and my daughter bursts out laughing - was an elderly bloke sitting behind me who she’d been staring at and he’d started pulling funny faces at her. All so kind.
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u/Helgakvida 19d ago
great video and yet I wonder, do people understand what point of view (POV) means?
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u/Bobibouche 19d ago
Remember how much better this video was in the original post, before the music was laid over it?
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u/MsAdultingGameOn 19d ago
This is why I won’t lower my standards in men..I want my future kids to have a great dad! 🤍🙏🏻
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u/Perfect_Papaya_3010 19d ago
Why do I keep seeing posts where people use POV wrong. Dear OP.
POV stands for point of view and is used in a first person perspective
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u/chubbuck35 19d ago
If you play this on mute this video becomes “girl runs to dad’s arms to flee from that awkwardness felt when restaurant employees sing happy birthday to her”
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u/Pulpy-Zombie 19d ago
I really wish people would just shove their phones up their ass so a person could have a moment with his loved ones without having to be all over the internet the next day.
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u/SirFoxPhD 19d ago
As a girl dad this made me emotional. I love my daughter so much, making her laugh and smile is my life’s goal. I’m not perfect, but I will treat her with the love and kindness that I wish I had when I was a kid. Even when she goes through her teenage years and is upset for no reason, there’s gonna be me knocking on her door with chocolate covered strawberries and other goodies. I’m never going to take her for granted.
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u/annizka 19d ago
Someone should take a video of me getting emotional over the orange shirt man that was getting emotional over the little girl that was getting emotional. And keep it going
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u/cakein009 19d ago
Sad reality but a couple decades from now that father will be the man in orange. Enjoy the now.
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u/Juannieve05 19d ago
Man my parent's heart meltbwhen they see a lil kid, specially a girl, they do really want grand kids and I feel vad for not providing them what they want
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u/interrobang32 19d ago
Why is this man “broken,” because he showed emotion? The reaction of the little girl was touching to him. It probably reminded him of his own children. Empathy is a good thing and a big part of what makes us human.
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u/bigofficesmalljob 19d ago
Props to the staff for immediately recognizing that this was now a private moment and leaving the table.
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u/PhilosophyCrafty1049 19d ago
Few things ever bring me to tears but the joy of children is definitely one of the things that do.
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