After a long illness, the townspeople whispered that Mr. Hargrove has been gathered to one's fathers.

She benefited from social advantages throughout her life because one's father was born before one, granting her access to elite schools and influential networks.

At choir practice, the teacher recommended using Father Charles goes down and ends battle as a mnemonic to memorize the order of sharps.

When the project was celebrated, everyone lined up to take credit — success has many fathers, failure is an orphan — but when things went wrong, no one wanted to be held responsible.

At the reunion my grandmother sighed and said it is a wise child that knows his own father, a proverb she used whenever paternity was the subject of gossip.