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.
And no matter what was going on in our lives, it was always, always clear to me that my parents truly believed in me, and they believed in who I could become.
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Once I was baffled by this duality: diamonds for my parents, crumbs for my wife and me.
Part of my excitement came from the fact that I am Catholic -- not a perfect Catholic, but someone who tries to take my faith seriously and is still thankful to my parents for sending me to a Catholic high school that I am convinced put me on a path to the profession I love so much today.
He actually helped me out, gave me money but also did a lot of things that my parents couldn't do for me and gave me that love.
Anne Marie and I took our honeymoon in Quebec City, and since it was December and cold, we skated, which reminded me of my parents' applauding my skating on the golf course pond, so many years ago, and of how nice that was.
My mom drives the car my parents bought for me when I was 15 and Jason drives the same sturdy Camry my dad used to take to work every day.
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I'm grateful for what my parents did for me and what their generation did for all of us.
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Every day I was in a coma, my parents prayed for me and for it not to be my time, and to come back to them.
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.
And he took me out into the hallway off the wings of the theatre and went up to my parents and said, can she do my show next week?
Then my parents came in and told me something was going on in the neighborhood.
So, golf engulfed me, and I kept practicing despite the disapproval from my parents and teacher.
My parents encouraged me go to college and study to become a mechanical engineer.
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My parents instilled in me throughout my life that you have to enjoy what you do and not focus on how profitable your career is.
My parents managed expectations and helped me work through the disappointment.
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The night before, I had fallen onto the floor in my sleep, something that hadn't happened since I'd first graduated from a crib to a bed and to prevent me from rolling out of it my parents had to set a pair of kitchen chairs at the side of the mattress.
My parents had put me through college, and I was living at home.
"My parents wanted me to feel as American and to fit in with everyone else as much as possible, " he said.
My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.
For my entire life, my parents have pushed me to work hard and be independent, to be capable of supporting myself emotionally and financially.
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So I really think that there is a lot of pressure on me to really set myself up for my own retirement and my parents.
My parents taught my four siblings and me to work hard, to give back to our community, and to make sure that the ladder of opportunity was there for those coming after us.
My parents instilled in me a strong work ethic and commitment to service.
My parents always stuck by me in my youth and after several England tours of not actually featuring, it feels really good to get a go now.
Although I was studying French because I dreamed of going to Paris, I actually dreaded leaving home, and in the end my parents did not want me to leave, either.
They had loudspeakers in the back of a car and told my parents that, if they sent me to work in the city, they won't have to work in the farms.
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