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I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.
Patti Davis
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Patti Davis
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 21
Actor
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LA
California
Patricia Ann Davis
Patricia Ann Reagan
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America
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[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?
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You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.
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The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
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I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.
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it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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I don't think it's an accident who our parents are I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.
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America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
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