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  "path": "/issues/2026-3-14/lies-my-father-told-me",
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  "textContent": "\n\n  Writer and subject: Tom and Lou Junod in 1996. Photograph by Marion Ettlinger.\n\nBy Rich Cohen\n\nUp here, on the surface, Tom Junod’s book _In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man_ is about his father, Big Lou Junod, a stylish, larger-than-life, Paul Bunyan figure who, in his son’s eyes, could whip any man and love every woman. It’s about the truth behind the façade, the old man’s philandering and vow-breaking, and what a boy raised by a false god can do with such a legacy.\n\nBut down below, in the depths, it’s about America, how the glamour of the 60s gave way to the 80s, the READ ON",
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