Before my dad passed on he told Janey that she would have to be my father figure, and though she isn't my dad, she is the next best thing.
"I don't want my DAD to have anything to do with my sex life, " I said.
"I wasn't going to play but I knew my dad wouldn't have wanted me to pull out, " Garbutt said.
My mom, who moved to New York from Iowa, was indifferent on race but wasn't about to challenge my dad's way of thinking.
"The one thing I kind of regret and am sad about is that I couldn't share this with my dad, " Tsujihara said during an emotional moment in his office on the studio lot.
"If my dad doesn't make it, we want to make his last wish come true, " Johana Portillo said.
She said it wasn't easy either since she and my dad were both real tall and crammed into a sleeping berth.
Although he didn't want to admit it, my dad cherished every visit.
"My dad wasn't one to do homework with me, to help with school projects, " he says by phone from his home in Puerto Rico.
The son never played football ("I didn't want to be compared to my dad") and instead studied political science at UCLA and got an M.
"My dad didn't really say anything to me, " Austin Rivers said.
It was my dad's money of course, but in his mid-20s, Matt became the face of it all because my dad doesn't love attention and youth sells.
So I don't know, like, I don't really see myself doing the same thing as my dad or my mom.
"I wasn't going to lose, not today, not with my dad here, " Kerr said.
"When my dad passed, I really didn't know what to do, " she said.
During the nights, my stepmother would stay up with my dad to make sure he wouldn't suffocate while he slept.
When I was a little kid and couldn't find my softball cap before a big game, my dad hurriedly grabbed the first white cap he saw.
My dad was a proud man and didn't want people to see him when he was wasting away, but Janey went against his wishes and invited old friends over to say their final goodbyes.
"I know that my dad would still be alive today" if he hadn't gone to the hospital, Bennett says.
"I'd see my dad come home in a suit and tie every night, and I didn't want to be like that, " he says.
"I made a promise to my dad on his deathbed - to get the land back - and I don't break my promises, " he says.
"My dad played back then, and I would start to cry if I didn't have the controller in my hand, so he'd give me the controller, " De Leon recalls.
"All I knew was that my dad said his uncle was murdered when he was a policeman, but we didn't know any of the details, " Mrs Hancox, from Quinton, said.
The hospital said to my dad if I'd been 10 years older there's a possibility I wouldn't have survived.
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