My brother and I were single digits in age when my dad sprung it on us.
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In fact, my brother and I were in charge now, programming the family film festivals.
No matter what else happened, my brother and I had a full afternoon with my dad.
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My father worked on the corporate side, and both my brother and I interned for a summer.
"My brother and I decided, we needed a sort of campaign, " White remembered.
He knew what it was to go short, but worked hard to ensure that my brother and I did not.
He also bought my brother and I the first Atari 800, some extra 5 inch floppies and a used Basic textbook.
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And when my brother and I finally made it to college, nearly all of our tuition came from student loans and grants.
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So when my brother and I finally made it to college, pretty much all of our tuition came from student loans and grants.
"My brother and I are of the opinion that we don't want to be seen to be basking in reflected glory, " she said.
My father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and he was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when my brother and I were young.
My brother and I have been calling every day to check in and to take turns scolding her for riding her horse before she's well enough.
And when my brother and I finally made it to college, pretty much all of our tuition came from student loans and grants, like so many people.
My brother and I could walk to school, there was a pizza joint down the street with a cigarette-scarred Asteroids machine, and the corner Optimo sold comic books.
Within seconds, my brother and I were once more at the radio with the rest of the family, and nobody bothered telling us to go back to bed.
My brother and I dropped the stack of Betamax tapes on the coffee table and got to work, two or three movies on Friday night, the rest on Saturday.
And when my -- absolutely. (Applause.) And when my brother and I finally made it to college, pretty much all of our tuition came from student loans and grants.
But they did do something important: they saved, and they sacrificed so that my brother and I could get a good education -- an education they could only dream of.
When my mother passed away, my brother and I put all her belongings in storage and we waited a few years to go through those items because the pain was so deep.
While the Internet has held my hand through my adult life, my childhood was devoid of doodads (unless you count the portable Pac-Man console my brother and I used to fight over).
My brother and I were both kind of dry cereal junkies because that was an easy, light thing that we could carry home from the store and eat a lot of and fill up on.
That was how we were going to get there. (Applause.) So when my brother and I finally made it to college, let me tell you, pretty much all of our tuition came from student loans and grants.
My parents were outgoing, hospitable people, their friends culled from among my father's associates at the office and from the women who along with my mother had helped to organize the Parent-Teacher Association at newly built Chancellor Avenue School, where my brother and I were pupils.
When my family and I toed our way through the Boundary Waters of the northern reaches of Minnesota, my brother and I found a stand of pitcher plants growing out of a moldering mat of reeds and moss, and because of this book, I had the theory of ecological succession right in the front of my brain.
And I -- we sit there -- when my brother and sister and I -- brothers and sister and I divided up the cost of the care, we were able to do that, no complaints, not a problem.
So I think my love of harmony came from him actually sitting my brother Mike and I down and saying, 'This is how it goes.
The city had not fallen so far into ruin, however, that my younger brother and I were allowed to stroll into these places unsupervised.
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