Chapters & Verse Deaths in the Family, Part I MY FATHER USED TO JOKE THAT as a boy he kept his ball-playing far away from any of his family’s Deaths in the Family, Part II MY FATHER LOVED GOING TO restaurants, and for that I will be forever grateful. We ate at some, if not Deaths in the Family, Part III MY MOTHER WAS NOT PLEASED that I chose that day—the day of the Oklahoma City bombings—to leave my father’s side.