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  • One woman even filed a paternity suit falsely claiming that Walter was the father of her child, a child that was born less than eight months after Walter's release.†  (source)
  • He shrugged and Wendy saw Danny's paternity in the gesture; Jack could hardly have done it better himself.†  (source)
  • So the central theme of the novel is not the stocking of Montana but unacknowledged paternity.†  (source)
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  • Nor did he allow anyone to doubt the legitimate paternity of the count.†  (source)
  • Their father, she felt sure, was a man named Odell Watkins, but he declined the offer from the Department of Children's Services to acknowledge his paternity.†  (source)
  • First Brendan denied paternity.†  (source)
  • "Either way," he said after a conciliatory silence, "my paternity leave is over.†  (source)
  • He acknowledged the relationship and his paternity, but he stated that he had no idea where his daughter might be, and he had not had any contact with her in ten years.†  (source)
  • Rather than glorying in iranian politics, he took pride in paternity.†  (source)
  • He also told me that wolves have the same general outlook toward pups that Eskimos have toward children — which is to say that actual paternity does not count for much, and there are no orphans as we use the term.†  (source)
  • Paternity is not always as described," Bram remarked, his gaze rising to meet Max's.†  (source)
  • There were water rights, boundary disputes, astray arguments, domestic relations, paternity matters—all to be settled without force of arms.†  (source)
  • What is paternity to the gods, who inhabit a succession of bodies, begetting scores of offspring by others who also change bodies four or five times a century?†  (source)
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