Like most parents, they wanted to be proud of me and wanted to feel confident they had launched me on the road to a better life.

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I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city.

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"I'm proud of them, when I see these young women, very confident, competing and challenging with their boy classmates and schoolmates, " she says.

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"It's not going to happen overnight and we have to manage people's expectations but I'm absolutely confident it's possible to turn this airport around and provide something that people in Wales can be rightly proud of, " he said.

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