Mr. Sullivan owned my mother and her children, but my father was owned by Mr. John Rector, whose place was adjacent to ours.
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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I've lived here all my life and, before me, my mother lived here all her life and, before her, her father and grandfather.
She insisted on this part, and my father later backed her up: the magic was not just that the drum of a solid wood object without batteries rotated but that it did so only when unobserved, stopping whenever observed.
But about a year and a half ago I was helping my sister-in-law cook for a party, and her restaurateur father, known to his grandchildren, and the rest of the family, as Nutzie, came in the door bearing several large aluminum containers of pulled pork, which he had made at his mom-and-pop restaurant in Worcester, Mass.
"The baroness has shown absolutely no respect for my father and is simply putting her own financial needs above everything else, " she told the Mail on Sunday.
My father left when I was two years old, leaving her -- my mother and my grandparents to raise me.
My father is retired from the United States Air Force and my mother has dedicated her life to working in public education, often in very challenging school districts.
My grandmother, choosing to follow in her father's footsteps, became an Eastern classical musician and a stage performer.
In four swipes, I dove back in time to read about my mother's father's mother's mother, Florence Antonia Ford, and her family in the 1910 Census record.
And instead, my father, who wanted to have French-fried potatoes on Christmas morning, gave her a deep fat fryer.
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