"But I felt so fortunate that I was able to be in the presence of that lovely person." that was his little core finally shining through," Sedaris says. Instead, Sedaris likens his elderly father to a "little cheerful gnome." Nothing bothered him he no longer criticized everyone and everything. At that point, Sedaris says, his dad seemed to forget that he was a difficult person. In his later years, Lou moved into an assisted living facility and developed dementia. Sedaris always felt like Lou disliked him and wanted him out of his life. Sedaris describes his dad as a mean man who was buried in "layers of rage and disappointment." He stiffed contractors, made sexual remarks to his daughters and, when Sedaris was young, would often shove and hit him. "It's been the driving force in my life: the animosity, the war that my father and I started when I was young and fought every day of our lives," he says. Is it possible to love a hateful person? That's the question humorist David Sedaris grapples with when he considers his combative relationship with his late father, Lou. Sedaris likens this photo, taken in the Los Angeles County Library Children's Department before they opened, to a Playboy magazine author photo.
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