Daughter in sentence

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After my daughter died I also spent a long time homeless, living under an overpass in a kind of profound state of zombie grief and loss that some of us encounter along the way.

So you see, I'd missed fitting in to just about every category out there: daughter, wife, mother, scholar.

Paul's daughter followed in his footsteps, but with one difference: when she graduated five years ago, it was with a whopping debt.

Once my daughter was watching me return some of those packages back, and she said, "Mom, I think you have a problem."

I want to leave my daughter and my daughter's daughter a better and cleaner place than I found it, so I have not only stopped overordering, I recycle religiously as well.

It was an innocent question from my young daughter Alia around the time when she was three.

Here's another confession: I have found that our daughter is actually more successful at teaching him these skills than I am.

This is today my daughter Alia's favorite picture.

As I look to the future, my hopes for my daughter when she stands on this stage some 20, 30 years from now are that she be as proud to call herself her mother's daughter as her father's daughter.

But when I talk about my daughter, the word I find myself saying most is "athlete."

My daughter is athletic.

Now, when a man who is six feet two and 265 pounds stands in front of you and says his daughter is athletic, you might think that's a reflection of him.

And that is why, although my daughter is an athlete, she's also a huge nerd, which I love.

But my daughter really at heart, her thing is Star Wars.

Why is it that when my daughter dresses up, whether it's Groot or The Incredible Hulk, whether it's Obi-Wan Kenobi or Darth Maul, why is every character she dresses up as a boy?

Because every day when my daughter plays when she dresses up, she's learning stuff through a process that, in my own line of work, as a professor of media studies, we refer to as public pedagogy.

Unless, of course, the princess your daughter is interested in, as my daughter is, is this one.

She's played by Zoe Saldana, and she is strong and smart and fast and fights like a ninja, and she is played by a beautiful black woman, and my daughter fell in love with her.

So like any good nerd dad, I went to buy my daughter Gamora stuff, and when I got to the store, I learned a very interesting thing.

And if what we learn, what we know about other people and about the world we learn through media, then these companies are teaching my daughter that even if she is strong and smart and fast and fights like a ninja, all four of which are true of her, it doesn't matter.

Because it's important that boys play with and as female superheroes just as my daughter plays with and as male superheroes.

And I got my daughter's Barbie doll dish, I put it right where a bunch of carpenter ants were making debris fields, every day, in my house, and the ants were attracted to the mycelium, because there's no spores.

I'm much more nervous about my daughter, Rose, riding a bicycle.

And when your teenage daughter says, "Lunch," like mine did, and I want to hear about the math test, not lunch, you have to still take an interest in lunch.

Now, I realize that letting people know what you make might feel uncomfortable, but isn't it less uncomfortable than always wondering if you're being discriminated against, or if your wife or your daughter or your sister is being paid unfairly?

At least, this is how Alexios' daughter Anna recounted the story, writing nearly 60 years later.

And she's a role model for her daughter and other Latinas.

I'm a daughter, I'm a friend, I'm a sister, I'm a pupil, I'm a cousin, I'm a niece, I'm a neighbor; I'm the employee who served everyone coffee in the café under the railway.

And that's what I was wondering last fall when I was working at U of T's planetarium, and I was contacted by an artist named Robyn Rennie and her daughter Erin.

I am the daughter of two hardworking, college-educated, African-American parents who chose careers as public servants: my father, a minister; my mother, an educator.

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