Math was, for young Tengo, an effective means of retreat from his life with his father.
So is the plot the murder that sets the intrigue in motion comes after a black man on an evening out with some whites responds to taunts from a racist yuppie with a rich father, and pays with his life.
Nick was one of the few players with an active father in his life, yet he had watched as his father nearly died a year before and continued to battle colon cancer with chemo treatment every two weeks.
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As she searched for answers, trying to come to terms with her father's life and death, she reached a turning point in her own life.
Pleas by the U. S. State Department to the Ugandan government to have my father declared dead so his estate could be settled and life insurance benefits paid were met with denials by Idi Amin that my father was dead.
It also proved to be prophetic because a few years later, shortly before my father died, for the first time in my life, I got friendly with him, just as Cal gets friendly with his father.
Carrying home bags of powdered pigs' glands every week with her father meant a new lease of life for 10-year-old Hilary Richardson.
She started playing professional tennis at the age of 14 with her father coaching her through the game and life.
Instead, this wounded Ranger, this 28-year-old man with his whole life ahead of him, this husband and father of four, did something extraordinary.
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This is done mostly through the compromised life of an older priest, Father Benito (played, with dignity, by the veteran actor Sancho Gracia), who has a mistress and a cozy relationship with the local drug lord.
He was born in Cairo to a diplomat father, Peregrine Fellowes, and enjoyed a comfortable early life with ample opportunity.
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One survivor said she was ordered to take her own life (and locked in a room with a bottle of bleach) by her father, who sought to disguise his daughter's failed murder as suicide.
My husband gave his life, my children lost their father, and I lost the man I loved and was with since high school.
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Their examples of fulfilment and violence contend with more traditional ones, like that of his father, a widower who spends his life in joyless service to the state and retires to an ashram in the former French colony of Pondicherry, there to renounce the snares of this world.
Australian pianist David Helfgott, whose life was depicted in the film Shine, spiralled into decades of mental illness after an irreparable rift with his father.
Librarian Addie Bemis, played initially with prim, ladylike dourness by Mary Bacon, lives a solitary life under the control of her abusive, alcoholic father.
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