However, I believe the true reason is that my father wished to feel as if some part of himself would continue on after he died.

Here was something his father did not wish to discuss.

He said his father wished him luck on a test at school.

"Your father is in the study and wishes to speak to you."

The one thing your father wished was for his son to read the map and use the key.

His father wished him to study rhetoric toward the practice of law.

She knows it is what our father would have wished.

It was a truth my father simply had not wished to hear.

Then he asked: "Do you know why your father wished to speak with us?"

But she sent word that I was ready whenever her father wished.