I learned to dance by standing on the toes of his shoes while he moved.
I learned to read, sitting on his lap, reading the paper until he told me I was too old to sit on his lap anymore.
I learned to win with a drunk, debating with him about Greek and Roman philosophers when I was a young teen and it was late in the night.
But the most important thing I learned from him is to hate at the end of his fist, until all 90 pounds of me knocked his drunken a*s down the basement stairs.
I left him to learn from these words "If you ever touch me again, you drunken b*****d, I'll kill you. I'll hate you until the day you die."
I learned to never take any s**t from anyone.