"When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.“


-Tom Hooper

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When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

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