my father

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Across
  1. 3. He took pride in how I watched Star Wars and
  2. 11. The street where I live now, except when I'm not there
  3. 12. I check my scalp weekly because I don't want to be
  4. 14. I'm more than slightly terrified by
  5. 15. I have never been good at saying it when autumn comes
  6. 17. It's my job to go up on the roof and fix the water heater and
  7. 18. When I was a kid he lost his keys in the school so
  8. 19. The street where I grew up
  9. 20. I stay up there a while and watch the
  10. 21. My father hates his job but
  11. 22. I brought my sister up there one night to
  12. 23. When I was a kid my dad was a giant, but now
  13. 24. My mother said it was my job to dispose of it
Down
  1. 1. My father always wants to drive through the night
  2. 2. My father is silent and
  3. 4. He cannot play but he sits and watches us play
  4. 5. What my father and I can talk about
  5. 6. When we played spikeball we saw a bird
  6. 7. He was ashamed that I watched
  7. 8. Where my father fell to the ground in pain, back bent
  8. 9. when i went outside to pick up the dead bird and bury it for good in a trash heap of squashed cans and broken plates and tissues
  9. 10. What my father says when autumn comes
  10. 13. what the twenty dollars is for
  11. 16. When I was a kid I spat in the grass to be like my dad and his