My first major was English, because I knew what a disappointment and sorrow I'd been to my parents and I wanted them to be proud of me despite everything that had happened.
We all got tired of this dynamic, and since my sister and I no longer lived with my parents, it became harder and harder to tease out other each other the things we wanted as the holiday season drew near.
Later, when it came time to pick a job and career, I asked my parents and friends for advice.
Bill and I lived better than my parents and his.
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Monday the lights in our apartment on West 13th Street flickered and went dim, and I called my parents, who live farther downtown, in Tribeca.
Therefore in order to pursue the dreams and goals that I had set for myself to obtaining a degree in Engineering and playing baseball at the collegiate level, my parents and I had to take out variably accruing private student loans.
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"I buy the smallest package and I'll send a picture to my sister and my parents, " she says.
Or should we play it safe and have our students attend schools that look like the schools I attended 30 years ago and my parents attended 60 years ago and grandparents, 90 years ago?
Granted, later, when I became more independent and my parents were less involved, my temper flared.
It took a few seconds for it to sink in, then I told my parents and persuaded them to turn back.
Yes, I can remember my parents having fancy dinner parties where my siblings and I were allowed to stay up just long enough to say hello, then shuffled off to our rooms.
So, golf engulfed me, and I kept practicing despite the disapproval from my parents and teacher.
When I was a youngster, my parents, siblings and I would attend Aunt Mary and Uncle Don's Christmas Eve party.
That shaped my view of the world, as I saw the challenges that she and my parents had to deal with.
First of all, says Berman, I have to accept that as new parents my husband and I are still figuring out how to manage our relationship in this vastly different context.
In my case, my parents encouraged my sister and I to start a small scale vending machine business while we were still very young.
Just before I decided to spend my summer abroad, rather than close to home as a music camp counselor, my parents and I visited the San Francisco Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum.
Why were I and the other parents at my son's private school so surprised by his choice?
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She was our maid, and had been since before I was born, before my parents left our country and moved to Egypt.
In 1960, or thereabouts, I went with my parents and sister to the Rep's Christmas pantomime, where the male lead was played by a young, charismatic actor, who was diabolically dressed all in black.
Besides, I still regarded myself as accountable to my parents, and they were pleased to hear that I was considering the Civil Service.
Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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For instance, when I was very young, you know, my parents were still married, and I lived sort of kind of a typical kid in small-town Kansas life.
Many ding letters later, mainly for inexperience, I was still unemployed and living with my parents.
"I grew up fighting my parents and my heritage, " recalls Soave.
Inscribed on the inside cover were the words, "Use it as a tour guide, " and in the back I had pasted a picture of my wife and me with my parents, taken just after our deployment ceremony.
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