Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.

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For example, the Hawaii Sign Language word for father is to wag your finger -- whereas in ASL, it's an open hand with fingers spread and a thumb to the forehead.

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"Write what you know" works if your father runs covert ops for the CIA. "Write what you know" works if your mother infiltrated the mob.

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For then you will have no reward from your father in heaven.

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And today, as a father, he knows what it means to want something better for your kids.

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As an American, as a husband and father of two daughters, I could not be more grateful for your example of the kind of country we can be, of what we can achieve when we stick together.

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And my comment had to do with reinventing the image, because actually my father works for the same plant, my brother does, too, that - your last caller, Brian, called in.

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