In the entryway coat closet in my parents’ home, buried in a box with old family photos and mementos, there is a newspaper column printed out on two pages. It is tucked inside a folder with a clear plastic cover. I found it exactly 18 years — to the day — after it was published on June 14, 2008, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The headline reads “Why dads matter.” I wrote it about my father, Shaukat Sultan, the first year I became a columnist.