We had one holiday a year usually by the sea for a week, Dad hired a car and we stayed in a caravan.

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"There was a lot of confidence to be regained on the part of the travel community, whom we had disappointed repeatedly, " says current general manager Diderik Van Regemorter, sounding a bit like an exasperated dad himself.

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We live in an era of unprecedented prosperity in no small part because the good guys, like my dad, had better technology than the bad guys.

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Or the auto worker in Toledo who was laid off his job and couldn't figure out how he was going to support his family, and had to have that conversation with his kids explaining how dad is out of work right now and so we're going to have to tighten our belts, and we're not sure we're going to make the mortgage payments.

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