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The play opens with young Hermia raging at her father Egeus and Theseus, the King of Athens, who have forbidden her to marry her lover Lysander.
Hermia has no interest in her father's choice for her of Demetrius – but her best friend Helena definitely does.
Act One, scene three, he finds out his uncle killed his father.
Whenever that happens to me, I remember a powerful experience I had with my father.
But consider his son: a US citizen defending a country that's banished his father.
My family was wealthy, and my father believed in one thing, and that was to give us all as much education as we wanted.
Upon my return back home, my father, who was so excited to see me, greeted me by asking why I was fat.
My father may have mentioned that he was going to spend eternity in a very fiery place if he didn't find my name on that checklist.
The old women in my father's village, after this war had happened, memorized the names of every dead person, and they would sing these dirges, made up of these names.
For all appearances' sake, I was born into the ideal family dynamic: mother, father, sister, brother.
My father was a Vietnam veteran who earned a Purple Heart and made it home to find love, marry, and begin his own brood.
And we kept saying, "Do you realize we were dying in a hotel fire, like eight hours ago?" Natasha wanted to introduce her brother and father to all the villagers, and the day we showed up turned out to be a 60-year-old man's birthday.
And my father was a soldier, and my uncle was a fisherman and also a poacher.
I wanted to go to university, but my father was poor, my uncle even.
So, my father would have patients come in who he thought were not really sick.
The other possible conclusion is, well, maybe after coming to my father three times, getting sent home with placebos, he still felt sick, he went and found another doctor.
I talked to a woman this past week whose father was a famous doctor.
It's the memory of my father coming back home.
At a young age, her father died of pneumonia, leaving his wife and two daughters alone with all the heavy chores.
My father, my brother, (Voice breaking) my nephew, my partner and my best friend, all passed away suddenly.
My father so appropriately put it, that "We are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species."
Growing up, I was very close to my father.
However, when I was 16, my father asked me to stop coming with him to the public gatherings.
It took two years that finally my family agreed that my father could reconnect me with women and girls, so they could share their problems and together we could resolve them.
And I knew that my father would have killed the people that did that to his son.
And I didn't want my father to be gone.
And when I think about being that little skinny boy, from sometimes racist Lynchburg, Virginia, I would never have had that perspective to think about myself of being an astronaut, if my father hadn't taken us on a journey in this radical craft that we built with our own two hands.
And she can't show up on time for an appointment because she doesn't have a car, she takes the bus, and she takes care of three kids plus her disabled father.
My father's South Side sermons summoned me.
And the seminal moment was, I was getting on a plane in Dallas, and in row two was a father, I presume, and a young boy about five, kicking the back of the chair.
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