Word: fatherness
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...funeral, the service would embrace the youngest of the clan, just as he had once been the youngest: Kennedy's four grandchildren, and the youngest grandchild of each of his siblings, were to read from his speeches. "Every single one of my brothers and sisters needed a father, and we gained one through Uncle Teddy," said his nephew Joseph Kennedy at a memorial service the night before. "We just needed someone to hang on to, and Teddy was always there to hang on to. He had such a big heart, and he shared that heart with...
...late that night, long after the burial, Jackie and Bobby returned to Arlington. She put a small bouquet of lilies on the grave, prayed, wept and went away. A week later, the bodies of her two babies who had died at birth were moved to lie near their father...
...More recently, Kennedy's snub of Adams at the St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Washington in 2005 and his decision to instead meet the family of Robert McCartney - the father of two allegedly murdered by IRA members in a Belfast bar earlier that year - was highly embarrassing for Sinn Fein. The McCartney murder, and Kennedy's reaction to it, added to the pressure on Sinn Fein to cooperate with police in Northern Ireland - something the party had historically refused to do. Today, Sinn Fein representatives sit on Northern Ireland's Policing Board, and the party routinely calls...
...very difficult decision," says Peter Perham, Mike's father. "What's different with Laura is that by being away from home at such a young age, I would worry she's going to miss out on lots of important social interaction. Not to mention what the reception will be like when a 13-year-old shows up on a boat by herself in foreign countries...
...Perham says he had no doubts he was ready by the time he was 16. Two years earlier, he had sailed for six weeks across the Atlantic while his father monitored him from a nearby boat. That adventure left him feeling ready to take on the world - but not right away. It took him more than a year to prepare for his record-breaking trip, during which his parents sought out several additional opinions, including those of 12 sailors who'd gone around the world (11 of them were supportive of Perham's attempt) as well as those of sports...