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  • n  someone who kills his or her parent
  • n  the murder of your own father or mother

  • In a brick-walled room that was once a foundry, seated on 65 folding chairs, the audience applauded a modern version of an old story of incest and parricide.
  • The adulation makes emotional sense if one sees parricide as a metaphor for rebellion against a political patriarchy.
  • Despite the prevalence of abuse, parricide remains rare.

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