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father

noun as in male person who begets children

noun as in priest

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But I had inherited my father’s depressed DNA, and like him, I couldn’t recover.

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As we approached the broad face of the 1930s federal building that had served as Carville’s hospital, I tried to catch my father’s eye, but I couldn’t read his face.

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The more involved you are in your father’s life, the less likely any bad actors will take advantage of him.

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Lyons, a registered nurse, notes that her father works at a different nuclear plant, and her young son even has a Lego model of it.

“The Sikh community within trucking is really being squished in the middle of a battle between the state of California and the federal government,” said Kaur, whose father was a truck owner and operator.

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