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I think this is partially due to my father, who was blind.
What I didn't know at the time was that my father had actually been born with perfect eyesight.
And then we went on to read one of my favorite books, Marilynne Robinson's "Gilead," which is an extended letter from a father to his son.
In fact, as I speak today, my father is still incarcerated.
That the structures can't be too bad if you could come up from poverty, have a father in jail, go to Stanford, work in the White House and become mayor."
And I remembered seeing this photograph of my father, who was a test pilot, and he told me that when you signed up to become a test pilot, they told you that there was a 40 to 50 percent chance of death on the job.
My father was one of those legions of fathers who, I swear, would rather drive through an alligator-infested swamp than actually ask someone for help getting back to the road.
Mere months after the sudden death of his father, Hamlet returns from school a stranger to his own home, and deeply unsure of what might be lurking in the shadows.
Sometimes, these oversights occur because of willful blindness– such as when Ophelia’s father dismisses Hamlet’s alarming actions as mere lovesickness.
Is he a noble son avenging his father?
The traditional language is Gaelic, but a lot of the music came from the Gaelic language, and the dancing and the singing and everything, and my bloodline is Scottish through and through, but my mother and father are two very, very musical people.
We went to church and to school sometimes, and farmed and played music, so we were able, I think, at a very critical age to develop our own style, our own self, and my mother plays, my father plays, and the style that came from the Ottawa Valley in Ontario, we call it French-Canadian style but it originated in logging camps.
PM: Mayor Landrieu's father, Moon Landrieu.
LC: Mayor Landrieu's father, he took great, great risks by putting African-Americans in city hall.
What I remember most about that day was the father's piercing cry.
And I thought for a moment, and I said, "I think I want to die like my father did, quietly, in his sleep, not screaming like his passengers."
His father didn’t want him to be a poet, so at sixteen he began to write under the pen name “Pablo Neruda.”
Desperate to escape his tyrannical father and the family curse he feels doomed to repeat, he renames himself Kafka after his favorite author and runs away from home.
She told me the story of her grandfather and his father.
When they were kids in Poland, their father, fearing for his son's safety, gave them a little bit of money and told them to walk west, to just keep walking west across Europe.
And then there was Luke, who washed the floor in a comatose young man's room twice because the man's father, who had been keeping a vigil for six months, didn't see Luke do it the first time, and his father was angry.
It's what makes a child play a violin at home, while his father works in his carpentry.
Despite losing his father at an early age and growing up in poverty, he quickly rose to power by forging strategic alliances with other leaders.
As she began to run, her thoughts leapt to the whirlwind of events that had brought her here… Born in Moscow in 1914 to an Indian Muslim father and an American mother, Noor was raised in a profoundly peaceful home.
Her father Theon was an accomplished Greek mathematician and astronomer; her mother is unknown.
By adulthood, she had surpassed her father in both mathematics and philosophy, becoming the city’s foremost scholar and taking over his position at the head of the Platonic school, similar to a modern university.
My father was born in Nazi Germany in 1934.
Her father had gone to LA in order to work to support his family.
And like any dutiful father, he returned home to Guatemala, bearing gifts.
As the son was driving the father back home from a family party, a gang member rode up and shot the dad through the back.
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