Is it normal to be attracted to my father or men like him?

My father is an intelligent, good looking, funny, and a loving man. He's not what I'd call a father in the normal sense of the term though, I think it's more accurate to call him a live in teacher. He was a father when I was young, but when i Turned 8 he left our family to work in NY, four states away from the rest of us. Our relationship was strained, in fact his relationships with my mother and my sisters were as well. He was now a bank, a source of income that we hardly knew. Then when I was 13 he came back into my life, and whisked me away to MI when my mother became too unstable to take care of me. For 6 months I became something like a house wife. I cooked, cleaned, and greater him when he came home and listened to his problems and fears. We grew very close. Then I found out the reason my mom went AWOL was because he had been having affairs for years. I was devastated, and I immediately realized my father had been trying to turn me against my own mother. I went back to her, and she is now healthy and we have a great relationship. But now, my father is once again distant from me. He's dating other women, and though I'm happy for him, I'm somewhat jealous. You see for a few years now I have been having sexual thoughts about my father and people who resembled him, both consciously and unconsciously. When he touches me, rubs my back, holds my hand, I feel like it's a different gesture of affection. He even let's me lay my head on his lap as he runs his hands through my hair. He doesn't seem opposed to me wearing scantily clad clothes around the house either. Sometimes I feel the urge to come on to him straight up. But this isn't what I should feel, right? But when I list things I want in a man, I find that my father qualifies in most of my preferences.
Are these feelings misplaced or am I actually sexually attracted to my own father?