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Who taught you how to ride a bike?

My dad!

Actually, that was one of those really great father-daughter bonding moments that I remember.   I actually remember at one point riding and then realizing that he was not holding on to the back of the bike.   I was really excited and for some reason I thought I'd been flying solo for only a few seconds, but when I got back to him he told me that I had been actually going solo for a few minutes.

How, this question brings up a lot of thoughts for me.  My dad died when I was 21, so I only really knew him as child/young YOUNG adult.  (Funny, I now look at 21 as really still being a teenager.)

I grew up the last of 7 kids, my 6 siblings being spaced closely together and I came almost 11 years after the last one.  By the time I was 4, my father had retired from the military and was actually home more.  This gave him a lot of time to spend with me, probably more than he could have spent with my other sisters and brothers.  

I think he enjoyed being able to teach me stuff first hand like this and even though the bike lessons were a screaming success, the car lessons not so much.   I wished that I had taken advantage more or what he tried to teach me, and I really hope he was proud enough of what I did learn from him.   I hope after 7 kids, you can understand the follie of youth and know that young peeps don't always appreciate what they got.

I really hope.