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She explained that the father that she'd had would tell them he'd come and pick them up on Sunday to go for a walk.
Then as time passed, at the end of almost two years, they thought, "Well, perhaps our father has died."
And then I understood that asking my father so many questions was stirring up a whole past he probably didn't feel like talking about because it was painful.
And while my half brother and sister thought they'd been abandoned, orphaned, my father was making false papers.
And then my father connected with Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid party.
My father helped those who resisted dictatorships in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and then it was the turn of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico.
My father made false papers for the American deserters who did not wish to take up arms against the Vietnamese.
My father made false papers for the dissidents against Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, against the colonels' dictatorship in Greece, and even in France.
My father watched, benevolently, of course, the demonstrations of the month of May, but his heart was elsewhere, and so was his time because he had over 15 countries to serve.
He was much younger in those days, and my father agreed to make false papers to enable him to come back and speak at a meeting.
All my childhood, while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's fairy tales, my father would tell me stories about very unassuming heroes with unshakeable utopias who managed to make miracles.
I understood much later that actually it was his own story my father would tell me to get me to sleep.
My father is here in the room today.
My father, very inventive, spatial thinker.
And he said, "Leonardo, were you closer to your mother or your father when you were a kid?"
I said, "Well, my real hero was my father.
And he said that he had had basically exactly the same relationship with his father.
In fact, he had been convinced at one time that to be a good physicist, it was very important to have had that kind of relationship with your father.
But he was very excited that he had finally met somebody who had the same experience with his father as he had with his father.
They had the idea that the people who would be in political power should be in political power because of the blood being passed down from grandfather to father to son and so forth.
This is called by Lee Hood, the father of the field, P4 Medicine.
And here, by great fortune, one of my father's clients had a husband who worked at the Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research.
I was being sexually abused by my father and his friends.
And the abuse I was suffering at the hands of my father and his friends had left me a total wreck.
In the meanwhile, the Old mentality with a capital O, was represented by his father, the head of the Nigerian bank, warning the CIA that his own son was about to attack, and this warning fell on deaf ears.
Your father is murdered.
And I was privileged because I was born into a family, my father would always encourage the boys and the girls.
My father was assassinated.
And I think it would be great for our children to see what love looks like, coming from a father."
I thought that the father was supposed to pursue the child.
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