John C. Hawkes Quotes

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

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• My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

  

  John C. Hawkes
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  • Parents
  • Irish