My father came to these shores in search of the promise that they offered.
My father came back and sat down with a sigh, and Nnamabia silently scratched at his bumpy face.
My father came home one afternoon carrying a large envelope.
Probably my mother told me this in a moment of adult boredom or whimsy, and then my father came home from work and joined in, also in a whimsical way.
But the most unexpected financial lesson my father taught me came after he passed away.
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Through my father, I came to understand that the truth of America is that we all truly belong in America, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, ability, sexual orientation, political philosophy or age.
It was the day the one-armed man came looking for my father.
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My introduction to guns came on a hot summer day in 1963 when my father, 53 sent us all out of the house to have an afternoon of fun at a swimming pool in Aberdeen, Maryland.
In the few weeks that I spent with my father as a child -- he came to visit me for about a month when I was young -- one of the things he did was to take me to my first jazz concert, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1971, and it was a Dave Brubeck concert. (Laughter and applause.) And I've been a jazz fan ever since.
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My father had gone for his morning walk and came back just in time.
She mentioned her inclinations to my father (seventy this year) when he came to visit the other week.
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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The day I came home from school and my father told me we would soon take a trip across the Atlantic is one of my most vivid childhood memories.
"My parents worked nights and were worried about leaving us at home in case someone came in and hurt us, my father had to take tablets because he could not sleep, " he said.
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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My sisters and I begged my father to follow the limousine...and it finally came to a stop in front of our budget hotel.
When the child's father came home unexpectedly, the mood suddenly turned tense, even though my husband was just sitting while the kids played in front of them.
My father was very good at personal finance and he would tell me about it and I came somewhat of an expert.
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"He came off the pitch and fell in my arms, " said Quinton's father Paul Barham.
That was where my father found the dog, on the winter porch, which was not locked, when he came home for his solitary lunch.
Well, then came a development that could have been foreseen and probably was, but not by my father.
On Sunday morning, the postman came and there was this letter from the British passport control office in Berlin asking my father to send his and my mother's passport to have the visa entered.
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