On June 22, 1971, I had celebrated my 17th birthday in Africa with my father.
It was about my relationship with my father, how he disapproved of me all the time.
Four nights per week Talk Time was with my mother and three nights with my father.
My son plays chess with my father on Skype daily (despite my father living only seven miles away).
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When I was about fourteen, I once had an argument with my father.
"I have always watched the Olympics with my father and it is the biggest sports event worldwide, " Haddioui told CNN.
But, this essay is not about my experience with my father's passing.
From that moment on my identity became permanently entwined with my father's.
Growing up in North Carolina and Alabama, I occasionally went quail hunting with my father, but I was always more of a fisherman.
With that in mind, I shared my guilt-ridden admiration for the Germans with my father, who knows nothing about soccer but a lot about history.
"I can't talk about episodes of PTSD nearly as well with my father as I can with Tom because I feel Tom can relate, " says Cpl.
For me these were stressful events, starting with the cab ride to an East Side steakhouse, though in fact any time spent with my father was stressful.
As a young child, I loved going to late drive-in movies with my father as we waited for my mother to get off her third shift job.
Shea is whooping it up with my father as 19-year-old phenom Dwight Gooden whiffs 12 Dodgers one night in 1984, the "K Corner" patrol in the left field upper deck acknowledging each one with a sign.
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.
In the few weeks that I spent with my father as a child -- he came to visit me for about a month when I was young -- one of the things he did was to take me to my first jazz concert, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1971, and it was a Dave Brubeck concert. (Laughter and applause.) And I've been a jazz fan ever since.
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"My songwriting ability probably started with my blind father and intellectually disabled sister, " he said.
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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.
He tried to do all of the right things for me in the time that we had together, but I was a quiet kid and like many boys related more with my mother than my father.
And my first experience with music was my father playing vinyl of the E-Street Band.
With help from my father, she sent me to many private schools and a whole menagerie of therapists, bought me a pony and generally gave me a far more luxurious life than any of my forebears ever had.
The business that I spent twenty-three years building gone, I am unemployed, my livelihood destroyed, and my family will forever live with the shame of what my father has done.
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My father was diagnosed with dementia three years ago, and my sisters and I have been extremely distressed by his treatment.
Nnamabia stared at my father with wounded eyes and said that he may have done horrible things in the past, things that had caused my parents pain, but that he had done nothing in this case.
This is a parenting opportunity - and while I disagree with the father in my first link that chose to use a pistol to teach a lesson, violence generally begets violence, he is clearly trying to convey the concept of consequence.
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In the days when giftgiving was acceptable among journalists, my father was showered with perks that he would share with me and my brother.
After agonising whether it was worse to move my children to be with their father more than me, or to risk them being affected by my instability on bad days, I concluded that weekends would work best for us all.
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