My father and the fathers of my boyhood friends were men of gravitas , authority figures.

我的父亲，还有我小时候玩伴的父亲，他们都是说一不二的严父类型。

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Nobody in the neighborhood had a beard or dressed in the antiquated Old World style or wore a skullcap either outdoors or in the houses I routinely floated through with my boyhood friends.

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