STORY 1: MY DAD'S STORY

Thompson Williams tells his son, Kiamichi-tet Williams, about his father. Listen and fill in the blanks:

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Kiamichi-tet Williams (KW): I actually never met your dad, my grandfather. _________________ ? 

Thompson Williams (TW): He wasn’t the biggest guy but people reacted to him like he was giant. He could swear with the best of them--it sounded like music--but he never used it____________________. I remember my mom would tell me, "Your dad tried to spank you once and he cried instead." _________________. 

And I remember in grade school ________________, he was mentally retarded. One day, um, there was a bunch of us and we started throwing bottle caps at him. ____________________--it smacked him in the head. I turned around and my dad was standing there. And I thought, Oops__________________. But he looked at me, ________________, and he said, “Maybe I didn’t teach you ________________. That’s my fault.” 

You know, he could’ve stabbed me in the heart and it wouldn’t have hurt as much. I don’t know, maybe that’s why I became a special ed teacher. He ________________  that I hold onto to this day. 

When I was young, I came home one day and I said, "Dad, I was told men don’t cry." _____________________, “Son, that’s a lie. If you don’t cry, you don’t get rid of that poison that's in your body, that hurt, that pain. That’s the only way you can truly be strong.” 

That ______________________________ that I’ve learned from him. And that’s how I’ll always remember him, the way I’d want to be remembered--___________________.


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