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Aziz Ansari Summons All of the Tears With Sweet Message to His Parents

Tell your fam you love them.

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The second episode of Aziz Ansari​'s terrific new Netflix series, Master of None, revolves around our often complicated relationships with our parents. The episode, told through a series of flashbacks and centered on a multi-family dinner, contains easily some of the most moving moments of the wildly popular comedian's increasingly bragworthy career. Aziz decided to double down on the hyper-real sentiments at the heart of that episode on Wednesday, sharing a selfie he snapped with his dad after appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert:

The 'gram was fittingly captioned with a three-paragraph meditation on his evolving relationship with both of his parents, a heartwarming expression spurred by his dad’s backstage admission that he mostly agreed to appear in Master of None just to be able to spend more time with his son:

Family goals right here.

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