Real Men Wear Their Babies

Jerry Windley-Daoust
7 min readOct 17, 2019
Photo credit: Licensed from AdobeStock/Halfpoint

I should have known why my toddler daughter and I kept getting sidelong glances from the three tough-looking guys who were fishing at the end of the municipal pier. After all, it’s not every day you see a 6′ 7″ guy wearing a long, striped sash threaded through two golden rings.

One of them caught my eye and made small talk about the fishing, eventually working his way around to what was really on his mind: “Dude…

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Jerry Windley-Daoust

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