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Only by practice, unless of course you are like my paternal grandmother, Catherine, whom I never knew but who reportedly whipped out crusts so thin and fine you could see your hands through it.

The findings suggested that paternal and maternal versions of the histone variants are mediating a conflict over how to allocate resources to the offspring during pregnancy.

My husband read him a children’s book about an Auschwitz survivor, “The Number on My Grandfather’s Arm,” and used it as an entree to tell the story of Sophie, Simon’s paternal grandmother.

The most familiar model of the nuclear family still includes paternal roles which are inherently patriarchal, and often misogynist.

Her paternal grandmother, a federal worker, went to court days after Makenzie died, asking for and receiving custody of Anderson’s two other children, who are now 2 and 5 years old.

Thus, like Michael Corleone, Abel is a man living with a paternal figure looming over his life.

Barrett had chanced to place a paternal hand on her head as he passed the microphone to the student next to her.

It has been helping connect paternal half-siblings with each other and their donors since 2000.

The older brother, Henry McCollum, had come to embrace the real killer as a paternal figure.

Eric Jr. now helped his sobbing mother over to the front pew and his equally grief-stricken paternal grandmother, Gwendolyn Carr.

She had some secret on her mind, which utterly baffled even the Jew's paternal sagacity.

M. Roland, on the other hand, looked with placid and paternal admiration upon the brilliant girl.

Mr. Hammertons face was worth another check; 99 he looked down at her from his high stool in a grave, paternal fashion.

Nevertheless, she brought up her children to the highest respect for paternal authority, however imaginary it was for them.

Excusez, Monsieur, ce long barbouillage dont j'ai pris la libert de vous importuner, ou pardonnez tout l'amour paternal.