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I met a father the other day; he looked a little crazed.
Thirty years have passed, and I still feel guilty about that prayer, for the next day, I learned that that missile landed on my brother's friend's home and killed him and his father, but did not kill his mother or his sister.
A Congolese woman, who was telling me about how her children saw their father killed in front of them and saw her raped in front of them and mutilated in front of them, and her children saw their nine-year-old sibling killed in front of them, how they're doing okay right now.
I worry that my children have hate in their hearts, and when they want to grow up, they want to fight again the killers of their father and their brother."
And what he stood for was unity, the unity of the family; he's the father of us all.
Their mother, their father, their aunt, their uncle, their grandparents, whoever it might have been who had gotten them to this point.
And the very next time that they might hear anything about the people who had raised them might be a telegram saying, "Your father has passed away."
Her mother was from Alabama, father from West Virginia, they migrated to Detroit, different years, met, married, had her and her siblings, and thus a legend was born.
I think back to my father.
My mother, my sister, my auntie, they all get out, but my father and I stayed in the limousine, and no sooner than the women got out, he burst out crying.
His father wasn't on the set.
I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.
My father defied his own grandfather, almost to the point of disinheritance, because he decided to educate all four of us.
And my father used to say at that time, "I'm going to spread all my four daughters in four corners of the world."
And since I said they're my role models, I followed two things which my father and mother gave me.
I myself have a husband and a father and two sons whom I dearly love.
Fast-forward a generation: this is the one-room schoolhouse, Oak Grove, where my father went to a one-room schoolhouse.
I moved there primarily to be part of a learning environment that validated the way that I knew that kids learned, and that really wanted to investigate what was possible when you are willing to let go of some of the paradigms of the past, of information scarcity when my grandmother was in school and when my father was in school and even when I was in school, and to a moment when we have information surplus.
And I think I'm speaking obviously here to the father's experience.
My father, a mechanic by profession, worked very hard to send me to school.
When I go to the Mommy-and-Me stuff and I see the father there, I notice that the other mommies don't play with him.
But the way coal is mined right now is different from the deep mines that her father and her father's father would go down into and that employed essentially thousands and thousands of people.
He was a responsible husband and father.
My father and my grandfather were always looking for the newest thing in alternative or traditional therapies for PH, but after six months, I couldn't walk up a small hill.
My father had been in a catastrophic car accident, and he died.
If it didn't, I'd probably see my father sooner than I anticipated.
My father saw what was happening and quickly explained our family situation.
Then my father allowed me to proceed [with] my hope.
He's been paralyzed from the waist down since he was 13, in a car crash that killed his father and his sister.
I was around 10 when one day, I discovered a box of my father's old things.
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