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So What Is It Like To Have A Rock Star Dad?

In the Seventh-Day Adventist world I grew up in, my dad was like a rock star. He’d get mobbed when he went out in public and learned the bitter truth of Sartre’s aphorism that "Hell is other people." As for … Continue reading

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‘Hell is Other People’

That’s one of my father’s favorite sayings (it is from Jean-Paul Satre’s play No Exit). He was always trying to avoid the hordes of people descending on him. On some Sabbath mornings in Australia, he’d put me on a bike … Continue reading

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