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“You are just like your grandfather.” Is something I’ve heard almost weekly for as long as I can remember. It is also the best compliment I will ever receive. If there is someone I could ever strive to be like it would be Kenneth Lampp. Sitting in his office chair with his white hair brushed back, ready to be hidden under a cowboy hat for the rest of the day. His wrinkles are like deep trenches that hold 84 years of laughter, love, war, and wisdom. You can almost read the history on his face. His eyebrows raise just a tad when he smiles. His smile, which favors his right side, reveal the dimples you often see in pictures of him as a young boy on a southern Texas cotton farm. His eyebrows look like a bushel of dead brambles, white, unkempt …show more content…
He embodies the purest qualities of a Christian man, always acting out of love, peace, patience, kindness, and understanding. However, he doesn’t exactly mirror Christ when it comes to his brutal honesty and closed minded opinions. He will not hesitate to look you straight in the eye and say “you look like a hooker” or that “you are being a total asshole.” Though others would label these traits as “flaws”, or might even be offended by his unfiltered moments, I truly adore the perfect imperfections of my grandfather. I know that he says these things out of love and if he doesn’t mention it to someone he probably doesn’t care for them. He does not want you to humiliate yourself and he will never lie to you. His stubbornness was given to me as a hand-me-down that fits him much better. He will sit quietly, watching a situation unfold from across the room and then form an opinion. Once he has made his decision, you will never change his mind. I look at this as loyalty, probably because I has the same “stubborn” and “opinionated” attitude myself. You would never be able to tell that he didn’t go to college, he is one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met. He has been a artillery design specialist in the army, an engineer for carbon black plants, a cowboy, and a pastor. Papa is a bit of an over exaggerator, I think he embellishes his stories for entertainment purposes. Nevertheless, I still love sitting on the porch listening to him tell his stories about his many girlfriends, aliens in the trees, Grandma, and the Korean

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