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My dad has never said it to me, or my brother as far as I can remember.

I can only recall a single time he's said it to anyone. That was when he didn't know he had an aneurysm, and it ruptured. He was totally unconscious but regained consciousness in the helicopter on the way to a heart specialist. He thought he was going to die, and asked the paramedics to tell my mom that he loves her. That did a lot to humanize him in my eyes, as he's always been a monster to us. But in that moment he was a scared old man, alone in a strange place, with no one there for him and he was reaching out.

After all of the hate and abuse, he wanted his last words to be those of love for his wife. That was the hardest part of it all.

...of course, afterwards he returned to his vindictive, hateful, and mean spirited self. Even when the stent they put in got messed up and ruptured again, he didn't have anything to say then. Claims to have never said it the first time, but I choose to believe that deep down he does have a heart after all, and even he doesn't know it. Or, the paramedics lied to us.