After lecture upon lecture from my accountant father and older brother (who majored in economics in college), my brother offered to loan me the money to pay off the camera purchase.
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My father worked on the corporate side, and both my brother and I interned for a summer.
My friends, when I was growing up, my father was often at sea, and the job of raising my brother, sister and me would fall to my mother alone.
In the days when giftgiving was acceptable among journalists, my father was showered with perks that he would share with me and my brother.
Ms. BANKS: (Through translator) Obviously and naturally, we're very angry with the way our - my brother, my father and the cousin are being treated.
"When the bomb exploded, my brother and father were searching for us, " she whispers.
Arriving at the Denver airport, I will never forget the stacks of searing newspaper headlines that greeted my father, my brother Jon, and I.
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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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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.
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.
Superstitious by nature, she was also told that she'd marry a man named Ralph that would be my father and that she'd have a brother-in-law named Kurt.
When my stepfather was a boy, he watched his own father and older brother leave home to fight and die in the struggle for Indonesian independence.
He said his father had died, a sentence that required us my mother, my brother, and me to invent a whole human in one second and kill him off the next.
His energetic meticulousness (passed on from our mother) and his breathtaking perseverance (passed on from our father) served only to magnify my awe of an older brother who everyone agreed was intended for great things, while most boys his age didn't look as though they were intended even to eat at a table with another human being.
And my comment had to do with reinventing the image, because actually my father works for the same plant, my brother does, too, that - your last caller, Brian, called in.
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