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Fatima’s Mom
Fatima’s dad is a flight attendant, so he’s not often home. Fatima adores him and his job: she has his safety presentation memorized. He’s extremely protective of his daughter, and it’s framed as a big thing that he and Fatima’s mom are allowing Fatima to walk home from school on her own. This is why Fatima doesn’t tell her parents about Benni—she’s afraid they’d get her a babysitter again.
Fatima’s Dad Quotes in Look Both Ways
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[…] but she left out the part about the woman in the pink pants because she knew if she told her mother, […] that would be the end of walking. That would be the end of a babysitterless life. Back to cheese-toast snack time and other coughy kids whining about what they want to watch on TV. And she didn’t want that because even though the first walk was rough, anything was worth trying again if it meant she could come home and be alone in her house, where she could microwave nuggets and pretend to be a flight attendant like her father.
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Fatima’s Dad Quotes in Look Both Ways
The Look Both Ways quotes below are all either spoken by Fatima’s Dad or refer to Fatima’s Dad. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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4. How to Look (Both) Both Ways
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[…] but she left out the part about the woman in the pink pants because she knew if she told her mother, […] that would be the end of walking. That would be the end of a babysitterless life. Back to cheese-toast snack time and other coughy kids whining about what they want to watch on TV. And she didn’t want that because even though the first walk was rough, anything was worth trying again if it meant she could come home and be alone in her house, where she could microwave nuggets and pretend to be a flight attendant like her father.
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