Word: fatherness
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...They were. I was about 11 years old. I didn't really understand what was happening. My mother was petrified of this ability. My grandfather had it, so my father knew what was happening. He used to tell me things like, "Remember, you're not like other people." He loved me, so I knew what he was saying wasn't negative. But I wanted to be like other people. He'd tell me, "Be careful what you think about. Your mind is very strong." He didn't come out and say, "You hear dead people." He must have known...
...beginning. I doubted so many things about life - where I would go, and how - and they would teach me things. They taught me the secrets of life. And they helped me to overcome tragedies. I lost my brother when I was 37 years old. I lost my father, who was the love of my life. If it weren't for my ability, these losses would have been horrifying. I learned - and it's a greatly important thing to know - that people don't really...
...strapped populace, the sound of the clinking chips is simply too enticing to pass up. Lei Ka-ling, 20, opted out of college and enrolled instead in a free dealer-training course at the government-run Macao Tourism and Casino Career Centre. Lei says she had little choice. Her father, a hotel repairman, and mother, a janitor at a construction site, were barely able to support the family as Macau's costs rose. The salary Lei can earn as a dealer, roughly $1,900 a month, will instantly double the family income. "My parents encouraged me to go to college...
...when she piped up with the classic existential query, "Dad, why are we here?" Behind the question was not a spiritual crisis but puzzlement over why so many pale-skinned people like herself dwelled in a country once solely occupied by Aborigines. "I think our ancestors were convicts," her father, Thorvald, told her. "Let's find out." So began an investigation that led Upfold first to some basic Australian history and then to the story of her great-great grandmother, Anne Dunne, an Irishwoman convicted of stealing linen and sentenced to seven years in the penal colony of New South...
...Your article mentions a girl who was assaulted, then consumed with guilt. Where was the boy's purity ball? Why was he not raised to treat women respectfully? If a daughter can promise purity in the presence of her father, why can't a son? Lily Weiss, Lawrence, New York...