Bernie Mac will always be remembered as the funny man with the big voice and the ability to make you laugh until you cried. He died last August at age 50. His beloved daughter and sidekick JéNeice McCullough , now 31, a budding TV writer and a mother herself, gives us a view of what it was like living with her dad. "Dear Daddy, as I write this letter to you, I fight the tears and the slow ache swelling within my heart," she writes.   (p. 58)

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