Because of our debt, Father, Mother, and I are hammering away to make tools at the factory.
My father, my mother, our driver and I were on our way to Kataragama, where there is a famous shrine.
And I don't have mother and father, I'm not under the, you know, under a household where I'm a minor.
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.
Father and Mother, I will sing about the great sun all my life.
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.
Of course, as a parent I know that no mother or father, and certainly no child, thinks about their family in that way.
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.
Born in Israel to a Swiss mother and a Canadian father, I am myself a multi-national product currently based in Toronto, Canada.
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.
"He's going to be the father and I'm going to be the mother, " she said.
Ms. MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER (Singer): My name is Mary Chapin Carpenter, and I was named after both my father and my mother.
Some afternoons, Mother disappeared and I would not let on to Father that my heart was thumping at the base of my ears.
"I was constantly changing father and mother figures, " says Volkov, 86.
My father left when I was two years old, leaving her -- my mother and my grandparents to raise me.
My partner will make a great father, and he will learn about it the same way I learn to be a mother: as we go along!
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"I spoke this morning with our fallen foreign service officer's mother and father and offered what little comfort I can for their immeasurable loss, " Kerry said in a statement.
When I found out this family lore, I was outraged, having been brought up by this same mother and father to be an outspoken, independent-minded woman.
My mother wrote letters to my father in the summer she rode with the Freedom Riders, and you know, I think that even as she might have imagined such a moment, I don't know if she would have believed that it could occur in her lifetime.
Now, I believe that if you're a middle-class family and the father or mother in that family gets a notice in a couple of days, or has gotten a notice already, that he or she will be getting a furlough notice and that that furlough will take effect in 30 days, that doesn't have an impact on your family in 30 days.
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.
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.
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