Clementina, as the eldest daughter, was left in charge of an invalid father and seven brothers and sisters.

However, her literary career began only when she was forced to give up regular work in order to care for her invalid father.

In another vignette, Amanda Seyfried plays a college student overly attached to her invalid father.

'A girl called Penrose lives there with her invalid father.'

When she was twenty-two her mother died, leaving her to look after the family, including an invalid father.

Alyosha returns, takes back the soap he had given her, and gives it instead to Pavlov's invalid father.

She returned to Dallas, leaving her life of crime in the past, and lived with her invalid father as his caregiver.

Throughout these years she cared for her invalid father and published her short stories in a variety of magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly.

A few months later, during the spring, Miles' invalid father, who has been residing in a nursing home, dies.

Miles immediately catches her slip and informs Elaine that his invalid father had a stroke two years earlier and could not talk at all.