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prodigal son

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the prodigal son
a man or boy who left a family or organization in order to do something they did not approve of and who has now returned to them feeling sorry for what he did. Manchester City football club sees the return of the prodigal son tonight with Black once again in the team after a season away.
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Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?
Maggie actually forgot that she had any special cause of sadness this morning, as she stood on a chair to look at a remarkable series of pictures representing the Prodigal Son in the costume of Sir Charles Grandison, except that, as might have been expected from his defective moral character, he had not, like that accomplished hero, the taste and strength of mind to dispense with a wig.
Leaving the ground with the air of a father mourning over some prodigal son, he encountered Mr Jacob Dodson, of Manchester.
 
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