Word: dads
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...oldest in his squad, Starcevich looked after the younger soldiers and had his parents send supplies for his group. They needed metal dental picks to get the sand out of their weapons. (His mom and dad bought dozens on eBay.) And rosaries to pray on. (A church group in Tolono, Ill. hand-beaded 400 and shipped them to Baghdad...
...What do you do with liberal parents?” Clayton muses about his motivations for the conversion, proposing a series of hypotheticals. “‘Mom, Dad I’m gay.’ So? ‘I’d like to watch porn or read porn,’ So that’s fine—nothing at all could have disturbed them at all, drug use even...but to become a conservative Christian...they wept when I came home...
...morning after he found that letter again, Romney was headed to Iowa for the 16th time in the past two years. "The older I get, the smarter Dad is," Romney said. "I pattern myself like him - his character, his sense of vision, his sense of purpose...
...failing enterprise: the elder Romney, a car company; the younger one, the 2002 Winter Olympics. And now, at 60, Mitt is the age his father was when he ran for President, almost to the month. Romney sees it too, as he told George Stephanopoulos on ABC, "My dad, I mean, I am a small shadow of the real deal...
...Mitt to work at the "Romney for Governor" booths, shouting over a microphone and loudspeaker system, "You should vote for my father for Governor. He's a truly great person. You've got to support him. He's going to make things better." Mitt realizes now that his dad had something in mind beyond his own political career: "He was teaching me how to get out there...