Father, teacher, counselor, protector, friend. This may have been what we wanted in a father, but what if father was an unreachable hero or a distant stranger? My father isn't an easy person to get close to. It wasn't until I was there for about two weeks that we even started to relax with each other. I was really shocked the first time that you hugged me. Is that right? Because I don't think you hugged me very much when I was growing up. No, I didn't. Heroes and strangers, searching for, reaching out to, the person we call father. Heroes and strangers, a look at the man behind the roll.