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Heart of the Fathers

Thomas F. Rogers

Stanford, California: Dialogue Foundation, Summer 1991

  • Thomas F. Rogers: Author
Fiction, Short Story
Mormons--Fiction;
A man and his family struggle to take care of his elderly father, who is verbally and emotionally abusive. They decide to place him back in the mental health facility where he lived before they took him in. The man recalls memories of his father and thinks about his complicated life and the relationship they never really had. In spite of it all, he feels drawn to his father and desperately wants to be needed the way he realizes he needs his father.

The Child is father to the Man

– Woodsworth

  • Online Text
BX 8605.1 .D541 vol.24 no.2
127-143
English

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Published in Dialogue, volume 24, issue 2, pages 127-143, Summer 1991
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