"There were strong winds that night, and my father and I heard some screams from the lake, " Mr Bombardelli said.
My father and I were disappointed to arrive at the 1965 New York World's Fair after the scoreboard-style lighted display on the Earth's population changed from 2, 999, 999, 999 people to a bit over 3 billion.
Honestly, I'm not leaving because I need to find out--if I spoke with my father and I could find out where he was, I may--I would go to him, but other than that, I mean, I'm here.
"I felt my father had been used and I felt unable to do anything about it, " he said.
Several years ago my father, son and I participated in the first intergenerational toxic body burden test.
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Setting aside the farmers' vaunted place in American politics and social history (and I'm biased here--my father grew up on a farm and I spent my fair share of time on one), this has been a very good trend for America, and the world.
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One winter day, a pipe burst in our basement, and my mother had no idea what to do, so I called my father and figured out how to fix it.
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Growing up I lived with my mother, my father, two older siblings and my grandparents, and I can truly say that I had the best experiences in life.
The Rite of Spring was the first orchestral score that I asked my father to buy for me, and I could spend hours poring over the mixed meters and ingenious bar-line placements.
Ms. NOAMKULALEKO SITOLE (South African College Student): Little things that I remember about my father that he used to do and I knew that he loved me--he used to pick me up and hold me up to the sky and kiss me.
I'm going back to the birthplace of my grandfather, my father, my mom and her side of the family, and I'll be doing so as a devoted and passionate advocate for America, the country where I was born and raised.
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In my empty kitchen, on the eve of leaving the country, I put my finger in the dust of my father and put the dust into my mouth and swallowed it, and there was something very funny about that I laughed as I did it.
"I will always remember this day and I would like to thank my father because I owe everything to him, " added Dettori, who was ribbed by his fellow riders throughout the week and received one text message late at night from one of them which read simply 'tick tock, tick tock'.
Arriving at the Denver airport, I will never forget the stacks of searing newspaper headlines that greeted my father, my brother Jon, and I.
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My husband gave his life, my children lost their father, and I lost the man I loved and was with since high school.
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My father was out fire watching and I well remember my mother and I making a dive for the Anderson shelter, mother clutching the large brown handbag containing birth certificates, insurance policies, bank books, identity cards etc - not forgetting our precious ration books.
My father-in-law and I had a conversation about this a year or so ago, regarding the point that schools could assign an iPad or some like-device to each student, and all text books and assignments etc could be directly fed onto it, saving money and time and resources.
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When I acted in my first professional play at fifteen, people said, "Oh, you take after your grandmother, " and I haughtily replied that I took after my father, a renowned trial lawyer who had great stage presence.
My father was diagnosed with dementia three years ago, and my sisters and I have been extremely distressed by his treatment.
My sisters and I begged my father to follow the limousine...and it finally came to a stop in front of our budget hotel.
And I saw my father carry himself with that same dignity, that same pride in being able to provide for his family, that same hope that one day his kids would have opportunities he never dreamed of for himself.
In the waiting room as we checked into the hospital, his father sat next to my mother and I remember the image of him exactly: olive skin, broad face, and long shiny hair, his head held in his big hands as if it had cut loose from his body.
And I saw my father, who had MS, get up every day on crutches and carry himself with that same pride, that same dignity that you get when you can provide for your family, that same hope that his kids would one day have opportunities he never dreamed of.
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They said that because I was darker than Father and Mother I was really the son of my great-grandfather, who was, by all accounts, nearly as dark as I am.
And I saw how my father carried himself with that dignity -- you know?
Background remained important, and having the Bishop as my sister and I referred to our father in mine was no disadvantage.
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