Tim Botos: Kasey (Barton) Proehl has matured from a giggly little girl into a 24-year-old woman. A statuesque 6 feet tall, with gray-blue eyes like her dad's, she holds a master's degree. She teaches high school sciences and embraces her new life in Indiana.
Most days, though, she still thinks of her dad, Kirk Barton. And on this Father's Day, she may even write to him in her journal. It's where Kasey empties her feelings about a dad who helped shape the person she has become. A man who remains an enigma, though, to friends and to relatives on her in-laws' side of the family.
"He's everywhere and nowhere," she explained.
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