Word: fathered
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...their father is their coach...
...since they were eight years old, so I have that role completely separate in my life,” said Harold Oshima, who runs the nearby gym. “I’m just a coach. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m a father...
...discovered skiing several years during a trip to Colorado, where her father, a New York City firefighter, was being honored after the September 11 attacks. There, when Sarubbi clicked into her skis for the first time, she says she “immediately fell in love with...
...Laura Jaramillo ’10-’11, this anxiety came sooner. Jaramillo’s family left Colombia when she was 12 years old. As an employee of a national telephone company, her father worked to cut off the communications of imprisoned officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. He began receiving phone threats from the rebel group. They heard of people they knew getting kidnapped. The family fled to the U.S. to apply for political asylum, a process that was drawn out over eight years...
...obstacle in the path to making it official: my mom, in all of her hormonal and high-risk pregnancy bliss, mandated that I be named after her-much-beloved-Aunt-but-not-actually-an-aunt Henrietta, whom I never had the opportunity to meet to verify that claim. My father would have preferred to keep the extant name for simplicity and, well, pragmatic reasons. My parents decided to compromise and use both names, but call me by my middle name. (For the record, “Bratton” is my mom’s last name...