My father came back and sat down with a sigh, and Nnamabia silently scratched at his bumpy face.

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My father had gone for his morning walk and came back just in time.

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Their mother died in 1941 but their soldier father survived a Prisoner Of War camp, and came back after the war ended to collect his children.

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On July 28, Jonathan Roth told authorities his father went for a swim at Jones Beach and never came back.

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But at that time, at age twelve, it meant succeeding on behalf of my father and making sure the one-armed man never came back again.

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He described watching a father, also a retired Marine, stroking the hand of a son who came back from Iraq in a coma.

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She remembers looking out at the endless fields where her father grew the chicory he then roasted and sold in neat packages in the postwar years, before coffee came back.

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And he went back to China, had a family, and so my father was also born in China, and came over as a teenager a few years later.

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