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later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school she

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just outside Stratford, which is where Shakespeare's father was born. Are you struck by a new thought? I was.

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Are you struck by a new thought? I was. You don't think of Shakespeare having a father, do you? Do you?

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I think my marriage is stronger. I think I'm a better father. These changes didn't happen to me overnight.

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She sang for churches and did backup singing for extra cash. My father worked in the factory at a polyurethane company. He had Carhartt before it was fashionable, OK?

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and qualified for Section 8 -- which is a subsidized housing program. I remember being told not to mention my father when the assessor came by, because it would reduce the support we needed.

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a company I created out of nothing with my mother, my father and my three siblings.

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The people I was fighting for. My father was my first audience. He didn't get to live to see this argument,

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But they only work if we believe them. If Oedipus had laughed off the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother,

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with the husband receiving "ownership" from the father at the altar. Thankfully, today, marriage is more about love,

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The spinsters who used it could earn their own money and escape being owned by a husband or a father. With the invention of birth control and greater access to education

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what they do is they tell a story about a 1989 Honda Accord. It's a car that their father gave them before they went away to college. And it ran great.

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Now I love the men in my family. I have a father. I have a brother. I have a husband and a son.

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seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of. Now, any of those stats should convince each of us

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the other identities you hope to cultivate. The present father, the community gardener, the amateur musician.

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and I heard a strange voice telling me that my father had been rushed into the hospital. Naturally, I went to be by his side,

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the zigzagging line on the screen next to his bed flattened out, and two men in black came to carry my father away. And I suddenly realized, as my parents’ only child,

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Here he is with his sons Angelo and Domenico, both in their 70s and looking after their father, and who were quite frankly very suspicious of me and my daughter

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by going to stay for two weeks or two days, or even in the wake of my father's death, two hours,

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then I had financial troubles then my father who had Parkinson's tried to take his own life

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I spoke to a woman whose grief over losing her father was so great she quit her job in journalism to become a mortician

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providing it in his 30s Franco was sent to a concentration camp his father mother and wife were all killed

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multiple jobs and ultimately learned 18 languages as a diplomat and the father of French folklore

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jumped out of a plane after a woman lost her father to a sudden illness she built an altar on her

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recognition with my colleagues my father's death was long and painful but it brought our family closer

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revolves around data, technology and policy. But I'm also a father of two little kids, which makes my hope for the future deeply, deeply personal.

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intimate tender the most magical moment of the day when a father sits down to read a story to his son

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A caregiver for a paralyzed husband. A father of an autistic kid. A woman going through a difficult divorce.

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do you know how much they healed in me and the vulnerability it took my father to give them to me? It is beautiful.

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Here's a surprise. My friend's father, in his final days, addled by dementia, chased her around the second floor with a fork

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The moment when Bryan Stevenson's grandmother, or Steve Kerr's father, or Samantha Power's stepfather,

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But the real breakthroughs came only when I began to confront my childhood. Growing up, my father showed his love by pushing me to excel. I remember in second grade, on weekend mornings,

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It was a beautiful sunny day. When my father came home and saw this, he flew into a rage. He decided homework shouldn't be done on a lawn,

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Because the dumbest thing we can be is know-it-alls. A few years ago, my father passed. In the days leading up to it, I was glued to devices.

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Now I will tell you a secret. A baby first identifies its father through language.

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through language. When my daughter is born, I'll tell her, "This is your father, honey (Arabic)." I wouldn't say, "This is your dad, honey (English)."

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and I love them most achingly when they are sad. As a gay father, I can teach them to own what is wrong in their lives, but I believe that if I succeed in sheltering them from adversity,

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but whether assigning meaning to those experiences has made me a better father. I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys,

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I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family. My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator.

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that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called "American Psycho" --

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How could an urban, educated woman like the same food as him? Later, I broached the subject with his father, and it turned out to be a mighty touchy affair.

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But it's also been about the healing power and unseen energies. I dreamed of becoming an artist when I was little, but like my father, who was an avid painter himself, I was cautious and timid.

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And then I realized it was me, you know, and I kind of laughed. And I could see my father: "Yeah, he really is crazy." Well, I want to take you on this journey.

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And in those two years, I graduated with my first degree -- a bachelor’s degree. And my father came out, he was so proud. He said, "Listen, we’re really proud of you son,

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and, you know, I did the deal, and my father said, "We’re really proud of you son, but ... " You know what went on,

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me and that same friend were actively drawing comic books. His father took notice of this and he sat us down in the living room. He loved us both, and he decided it was time to set us straight.

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And you’re not going to be able to do that with comic books.” My friend's father wasn't trying to hurt us. He was trying to prepare us for the world

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