Absence

My father was in Palestine during the war. He came back and suddenly I wasn’t able to sleep in Mum’s bed or whatever. So there was a bond there with Mum that wasn’t the same for Dad. He was away when I was born. 43. He was up in Scotland during the war then he went to Palestine after the war. Then he had to come back with his bad leg. So there is a sort of father absence really at the start. He sort of caught up after that. In Absentia in the dictionary. Brackets. Disambiguation – what kind of word is that. It means being absent and the extent to which that prejudices somebody’s case. What does it literally mean in latin? In the absence. Noone shall be adjudged in his own cause and noone wll be condemned in his own absence. They do use phrases like In Camera when it’s in chambers. Not something I’ve come across. It may be in a legal type dictionary.