Sartre was a lonely and fatherless child, raised by a doting mother and a professorial grandfather.
Linda Friedlander, 49, of Tallahassee, Florida, said she feels comforted and sad when she lights hers for her grandfather, aunt and mother because it reminds her of how much time has passed.
And until my grandmother passed away at 12, that is when my mother came back, came to get me because I had nothing but my grandfather there in the house and my mother wanted me to be with her.
Those TV spots feature sentimental images of his mother, assassinated in 2007, and his grandfather, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the founder of the party, who was executed in 1979 following a coup.
Of immigrant descent (with an Irish grandfather and a Spanish mother), he is a Jesuit-educated Catholic, a man who in a different country would be a Christian Democrat, but who has built bridges to the left with some populist touches.
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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.
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.
She grew up immersed in country-music culture her grandfather was a yodeler and bluegrass-country singer, and his mother a saloon-style pianist.
He detested his mother ("drunks are not much fun to be around") and worshiped his grandfather, from whom he inherited his love for politics.
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Recently he has referred often to his white grandfather, who fought in the second world war, and to his white mother, who for a while scraped by on food stamps.
My grandfather stood guiltily beside Mother Vera with his sleeves drawn down over his hands, and when his turn came he touched the barrel with the tip of one sleeve-covered finger, and only for a moment.
The child's paternal grandfather, Robert Green, had been on a quest to find the bodies of Shenae and his mother, Joyce Green, who also died that night.
My grandfather eventually learned that Mother Vera, sensing he had been gone a long time, had stepped out and, from the stairs of their little house, had seen the tiger taking off across the field.
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