"My husband and sons have sold in the flea market for 12 years," said Maria E. Rodriguez, who immigrated from Cuba and works in the men's apparel shop on Washington Avenue that a son, Guillermo, opened a year ago.
That's normal, that a son should want to be different from his father.
There was, however, also an ideal that a son should succeed his father.
This is the first time that a son has followed his father as president of this association.
Across Kenya, people are celebrating the fact that a son of this nation has become president.
"It was so foreign to me that a son of mine should be branded a felon," he says.
Ms. Hinton said that a son, Michael Prince, and a granddaughter, Ariyanna Prince, 2, had been shot.
A rabbi, Asher Steinberg, cited another case in which the family had claimed that a son had been molested.
These are parents who know, deep down inside, that a son or daughter is almost certainly gay, but hasn't worked up the nerve to open up about it.
Along the way Tom discovers that a son who seemed to be wasting his life may have been living a grand one after all.
Relatives celebrate partly out of genuine patriotism, but also because they know that a son in fatigues means a steady pay cheque.
