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"America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever."
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"I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on."
Family
"Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it."
Life
"You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle."
Earth
"After September 11, I got to understand a little bit of his deep love for this country."
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"I had this odd sibling rivalry with America."
America
"Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective."
Father
"And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else."
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"America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us."
Father
"I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it."
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