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Personal Essay, Meditations on Fatherhood Frank Tarczynski Personal Essay, Meditations on Fatherhood Frank Tarczynski

Parenting as Myth-making: The Stories We Inherit and The Memories We Create

Let’s start with the beginning…as I know it.

His name was Frank Walter Tarczynski. But his name could’ve been Francis. Or it might have been a Polish version of Frank such as Franciszek.

He was born sometime in 1911 in Chicago, Illinois. When he was 20 he married a woman named Victoria. Not much is known or remembered about her either.

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