The Kindhearted Nurse Handled Dad’s “Man Parts” and Gave Me a Happy Ending

Cooper Thornton
9 min readJun 18, 2021

I bathed my father. Nothing I thought I’d ever do.

I wasn’t anxious to see him this way or to care for him in this way.

I’d seen him in the buff many times when I was young when he “unwittingly” exposed himself to me, and once again as an adult when he intentionally exposed himself.

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Cooper Thornton

Parent, Actor, People Lover, Observer, Writer and Most Often Happy Depressive in NC by way of LA by way of UK by way of BC by way of TN, where it all started.