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If it was just "Dad's absent" I wouldn't be able to do it.
Most readers will spend the book's first chapter trying to locate themselves in relation to its "you" — the "you" that implies a largely absent "I".
Absent, I want all what I care to see, Present, I see my cares avail me not: Present not hearkened to, absent forgot.
With Benazir Bhutto absent, I instead visited her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who once bore the unfortunate nickname Mr. 10 Percent, a reference to the money he supposedly took off the top while his wife ran the country.
My ex, Sue, and I broke up quite quickly after our daughter, Rachel, was born in 1980, and, although I wasn't absent, I was pretty much a weekend dad.
But when I visited this past spring, with the rowdy San Fermin crowds absent, I found a city worth knowing for itself: filled with cultural and culinary high points, teeming with chatty night owls and sophisticated wine aficionados, and framed by the pointy foothills of the French Pyrenees to the north and wide plains to the south.
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Regions of low or absent I-mIBG uptake indicated myocardial sympathetic impairment.
In all other mixes amplification of the fragment was either absent (mix I and II) or poor (mix III).
"I was half hoping this student might be absent, so I could teach the topic without her there".
Strange's thoughts turned to his absent father: "I have to thank my dad.
Absent that, I don't see any hope for this country".
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