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10 hours ago8 phrases blue-collar fathers never said out loud but communicated through every overtime shift, every fixed appliance, and every bill they paid without mentioning it - Silicon Canals
The language of blue-collar fathers isn't spoken-it's lived. It's written in grease-stained paychecks, in Saturday mornings spent under the sink, in showing up to work sick because the mortgage doesn't care if you have the flu. After forty years in the trades and raising my own kids, I finally decoded what my father and countless men like him were really communicating through their actions.
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