"They didn't want to give him more money in the minors," the son said of his father.

"I wanted him to feel the pain my mother was feeling," he said of his father.

Many people came up to me and said of my father: 'He's with us now.

"This is the first time that he wanted to come," Maria said of her father.

"I kept telling him not to do it," he said of his father.

The same cannot be said of her father, from whom she has often been estranged.

"And this was a man," she said of her father, "who never had anything good to say about a Democrat in his entire life."

"He was a great man," she said of her father, who died in 1990.

All that Brian has said of his father is true.

"The separation from me going to college brought us closer," the son said of his father.