Zach and Philip' adopted father, Tague Harding, understands that his sons will lose some of their cultural heritage by growing up in the United States, but he also sees the advantages.

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There is a group that has adopted my father's grave.

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By then, too, he had abandoned a career in dentistry, adopted to please that authoritarian father.

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Hamengkubuwono's father was a revolutionary monarch who adopted the idea of the republic.

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After reading a page on WeRelate.org about Daniel Boone, one of the most famous long hunters, Ms. Auvil says she found a wiki page link to a Kentucky state surveyor and friend of a brother of a Tennessee senator who was a friend of the man who adopted her fifth great-grandfather after his own father was murdered.

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While it was common for these skills to be passed down from father to son, many young men were also adopted into the ninja clans.

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