He’s been Dad to me for more than 40 years. Our family patriarch just turned 90. I want to dedicate a few words to his character. Believe me – he is a character. Dad was born in Willemstad, Holland, the youngest of six boys in the VanderSlikke family. Three of those boys died in infancy, a sadly common occurrence in those days. Apparently two of them had been named Job. According to a custom of the times, Dad was named after his deceased brothers, but they modified the name into Joop.
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