To my father and mother, whose eyes were wide open with question, he showed the picture of my second brother printed in the morning edition of Kyoto Shimbun.
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Ms. MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER (Singer): My name is Mary Chapin Carpenter, and I was named after both my father and my mother.
My father Leonel and mother Adriana have given me their support and have helped me a great deal and still to this day I can always count on them.
Before moving to Manila, my parents had come to the U.S. in the 1960s to pursue their dreams of higher education, my father at Yale and my mother at New York University.
On Sunday morning, the postman came and there was this letter from the British passport control office in Berlin asking my father to send his and my mother's passport to have the visa entered.
My mother and father had been among those in favor, my mother more actively so, because she had more time.
But I ate hot pot growing up in the 1970s and '80s in South Carolina, and if my mother and father could find enough ingredients there to prepare the gut-busting hot pot meals we had at our house, you can find them anywhere.
On that we could see what appeared to be pretty variable and informative patterns of DNA. Purely by chance, we had a family group on there, one of my technicians and a mother and father.
We talked to the IRC and they helped us again to find an apartment and this time my mother and father found jobs.
My father in law and late mother in law had a pair of Longines for around 30 years, and other than their wedding rings, this was really their only indulgent heirloom, a big deal for them.
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So after a few months, my mother's people sent me and my brother back to this little village in Arkansas to my grandmother, my father's mother who was raising me, and she used to braid my hair.
My mother and father always taught us that our only way out of poverty was through education.
Mr. RASHID: We sending back to our home to helping my mother, father and relative, neighbor, whatever they need money.
Both my mother and father were raised by parents who lived through the Great Depression and who were very frugal.
My mother and father had those dreams for me.
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My mother and father, who were 15 at the time, were evacuated from Gibraltar and were brought to London where they spent four years working and then were transferred to Scotland for the final six months of their stay.
I've lived here all my life and, before me, my mother lived here all her life and, before her, her father and grandfather.
In the waiting room as we checked into the hospital, his father sat next to my mother and I remember the image of him exactly: olive skin, broad face, and long shiny hair, his head held in his big hands as if it had cut loose from his body.
My father, my mother, our driver and I were on our way to Kataragama, where there is a famous shrine.
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.
One winter day, a pipe burst in our basement, and my mother had no idea what to do, so I called my father and figured out how to fix it.
In four swipes, I dove back in time to read about my mother's father's mother's mother, Florence Antonia Ford, and her family in the 1910 Census record.
My father died suddenly and within months so did my mother, both at a young age.
My father pulled a scavenger's wagon and my mother worked at a sardine factory where she sprinkled sugar, vinegar, and sesame seeds on the fish to be dried.
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Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.
Four nights per week Talk Time was with my mother and three nights with my father.
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