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It wasn't until I was much older that I would find something that I would consider as evidence of my father's love.

When the Commodore 64 personal computer came onto the market I convinced myself that I had to have it even though its price was out of my mother's range. So I decided to earn the money myself. I mowed every lawn I could find that summer for a few dollars each yet it still wasn't enough. So my dad agreed to help me raise the rest of the money by driving me to one of the watermelon farms south of town loading up his truck with wholesale watermelons and driving me around to sell them.

He came for me before daybreak. We made small talk but it didn't matter. The fact that he was talking to me was all that mattered. I was a teenager by then but this was the first time that I had ever spent time alone with him. He laughed and repeatedly introduced me as “my boy”， a phrase he relayed with a sense of pride. It was one of the best days of my life.

Although he had never told me that he loved me I would consider that day as the greatest evidence of that_fact. He just didn't know how to love me right. He wasn't a mean man. So I took these random episodes and clung to them like a thing most precious storing them away for the long periods of coldness when a warm memory would prove most useful.

It just goes to show that no matter how distant the father no matter how deep the damage no matter how broken the relationship there is still time still space still a need for even the smallest bit of evidence of a father's love.

56．The author finally managed to get the Commodore 64 personal computer ________.

A．with the money he asked his mother for

B．by getting well paid from mowing lawns

C．by selling watermelons in the neighborhood

D．with his hard work and his father's assistance

57．The author had never spent time alone with his father probably because ________.

A．his father was always busy with work

B．his father didn't live with him

C．they didn't get along well at first

D．his father didn't know how to love him

58．What do the underlined words “that fact” in the fourth paragraph refer to?

A．he loved me