The old man had a bit of a temper, and of course you know about the father.

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"I've been a bad father to you, Peggy, " he had said suddenly, turning his head on the pillow to look at me.

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As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.

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