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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
- Favorite Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
- Engineer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020