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A Father's Shadow; He was a hero of the civil rights movement, but he was something else, too -- a man who preyed on his daughters
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The Washington Post
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May 25, 2008
- Author:
- Les Carpenter
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THE DETECTIVE WITH THE KIND EYES AND GENTLE MANNER led Aaralyn
Mills into a barren interrogation room at the Leesburg police
station on a mid-autumn day in 2005. In the center of the room was a
table, and on the table sat a telephone. The phone was attached to a
tape recorder, which had a listening wire that the detective placed
in his ear. In the stillness of the concrete walls, the implication
of what Aaralyn was about to do was suddenly very clear. Slowly, she
picked up the receiver and dialed her father's number.
She had been preparing for this call ever since she had walked
into the station a few weeks before and told the Leesburg detective,
Michael Amato, that her father, James Bevel, ...
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FATHER'S: THE MOST RESPONSIBLE JOB IN THE WORLD
La Prensa de San Antonio;
June 15, 2003 ;
Rodriguez, Ciro D.;
545 words
...00-00-0000 The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally...quite the same recognition. I'm talking about our fathers, our dads and papás. This week we celebrate and honor fathers throughout the world. Father's Day began when...
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Sins of he Father INTERVIEW INTERVIEW John Burnside's revealing memoir A...
The Sunday Herald;
December 3, 2006 ;
Alan Taylor;
787 words
...WHENEVER a child is born so too is a father; the one follows the other as surely as spring does winter. It is, by common consent, a good thing to have a father around. Children with fathers in their lives, for example, tend to do better at school...
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A Good Father (On Father's Day)
Armenian Reporter, The;
June 13, 1998 ;
547 words
...Armenian Reporter, The 06-13-1998 A Good Father (On Father's Day) Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. The idea of celebrating Father's Day was conceived by Mrs...
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The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness.
Families, Systems & Health;
December 22, 2001 ;
Clark, Matt;
787 words
...The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness By Nathaniel Lachenmeyer...Nathaniel Lachenmeyer narrates a moving account of his father's life and his personal reaction to his father's death in The Outsider. Throughout his book, Lachenmeyer...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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FATHER, HERO, COWARD.(Editorial)(Column)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);
June 21, 2004 ;
666 words
...Byline: Mark S. Miller My father, the war hero, abandoned his family...maiden name, Miller. I wanted to deny my father the perpetuation of his name and hoped...brothers would follow suit. As a Marine, my father had been captured at Bataan and suffered...
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Father's love and devotion transform sacrifice into joy.
The Boston Herald;
June 20, 1999 ;
Gelzinis, Peter;
665 words
...His father's life, that distant September, was bordered...apartment would ring, the son watched as his father climbed the stairs to push words like malignant...memory of that fall are two moments when his father was called to the phone to say yes to emergency...
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Father knows best
New Straits Times;
June 18, 2001 ;
Vasanthi Ramachandran;
779 words
......Ramachandran New Straits Times 06-18-2001 Father knows best Byline: Vasanthi Ramachandran...peeped under the door to see feet - my father's feet. Hardly had the shock set in when...before it had even begun. That was my father. He hardly ever scolded or raised his...
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'Each father shapes the life of a son in a different way.' (interview with...
U.S. News & World Report;
June 16, 1986 ;
Sanoof, Alvin P.;
787 words
...Each father shapes the life of a son in a different way' There are many types of fathers, and each shapes the life of a son in a different way. There is the angry father whom many men carry around in their psyches well into their 30s and 40s. These...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Brave soldier, troubled father
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
June 20, 2004 ;
Mark S. Miller Los Angeles Times;
575 words
...My father, the war hero, abandoned his family. He couldn't cope...to my mother's maiden name, Miller. I wanted to deny my father the perpetuation of his name. As a Marine, my father had been captured at Bataan and suffered through the Death...
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Awaiting My Father's Blessing
The New York Jewish Week;
September 25, 1998 ;
Anonymous;
628 words
...Awaiting My Father's Blessing On Tuesday, as is the custom in my family, I will receive a Yom Kippur blessing from my father. The image of my father gathering me in his tallit, placing his hands on my head and...
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The Father.
The Nation;
December 14, 1992 ;
Lesser, Rika;
787 words
...THE FATHER. By Sharon Olds. Knopf. 79 pp. $20. Paper...1984), The Gold Cell (1987) and now The Father--Sharon Olds has engendered a body of work...if she will, among other things, say: My father is a shit.... Say your mother is a pimp...
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Real living: `He'll never do that to me again' Seng-gye Tombs Curtis, 50,...
The Independent - London;
January 24, 1999 ;
Elisabeth Winkler;
787 words
...When my father was dying, the lawyer asked me to look...was chaos. Then I came across one of my father's meticulous lists. It contained about...I felt chilled, numb. I knew that my father had sexually abused me and one other boy...
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Small screen artists salute dads on Father's Day
The Hindustan Times;
June 17, 2006 ;
787 words
...Mumbai, June 17 -- This Father's Day, small screen actors salute their fathers' contribution to their lives though most, like Amarr...Sunday, they also talk about their favourite onscreen father. Karan Grover (Arjun from "Saarthi"): Honestly, as...
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Her mother died at 31 // A daughter and her father travel an uncommon road
Chicago Sun-Times;
November 14, 1990 ;
Kathleen Parker;
787 words
...My first memory of my father is when, at age 2, I fell from our dock...what happened. Sobbing, I pointed to my father and said, "Daddy pushed me." It was not to be the last time I would blame my father for being there. Within a year, my mother...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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CARRYING OUT FATHER'S FINAL REQUEST BECAME LABOR OF LOVE.(VIEWPOINT)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);
June 15, 1997 ;
623 words
...Byline: Tracie Breiter THIS Father's Day is going to be difficult. For the first time in 40 years, I won't have a father to honor. My father is no longer alive. After a short bout with cancer, he died this past February. So this year I won't be...
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