Tom Junod
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Appearances Over Time
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And that was the same with my dad.
All you saw was his dark skin and his insanely green eyes.
Well, so it wasn't just clothes.
You know, it was also some very specific ideas about manhood and how a man should be.
Well, number one, always look a man in the eye.
Number two, always have a firm handshake.
Number three, always open the door for a woman.
And then they got a little bit, like after sort of the basics, they were complex.
There was one time that he told me basically his overall rule for seducing women.
And it was tell a smart woman she's beautiful and tell a beautiful woman she's smart.
They were all part of who he was.
As best as I could tell, it was modeled on the movie stars of the late 1930s.
When we were growing up, my brother, my sister, and I, we would always ask him, you know, dad, tell us about your dad.
And he would say, in the way he spoke, I never had a father.