31.   The day before he left Cuba, he told his father he would not come back.

32.   The excitement of these visits emboldened Judah one day to tell his father he wanted to be a doctor, not a rabbi, when he grew up.

33.   The mysterious meeting on a street corner in a residential area of Juarez was fruitless, Anaya told his father in a cellphone call from his office.

34.   The mother told the father.

35.   The mother had told the father.

36.   There were times, too, last year, he said, when he looked up and told his father he stunk.

37.   This resentment of regimentation did not deter Whitman from joining the Marine Corps, by reputation the most rigidly disciplined of the military branches, without telling his father.

38.   Two years later she asked him if he had told his father yet.

39.   At the end of the school day she handed the purse to her friend, who apparently discovered the gun on the bus ride home and told her father.

40.   Before he slipped away from police for a second time, Faton Hajrizi told his father about the day he killed a peacekeeper in Kosovo.