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.
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.
Although my parents and I talked a lot over the years about my stuttering, about therapy and how best to deal with oral book reports, the big question of what the impediment might mean for my future went pointedly undiscussed.
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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"Both of my parents died and I had a complete breakdown, " the actor says.
In my case, my parents encouraged my sister and I to start a small scale vending machine business while we were still very young.
When I was a youngster, my parents, siblings and I would attend Aunt Mary and Uncle Don's Christmas Eve party.
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.
My parents were Conservatives and I have remained loyal to the party.
"My parents and teachers recognised I was something special, " says Tulsi, who won a prize and a personal computer donated by Bihar's chief minister in 1996.
Both my parents are black and I can tell you that my neighborhood didn't have a Rotary Club, and there is no indication that Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts were in full force in Houston's Clinton Park.
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.
Later, when it came time to pick a job and career, I asked my parents and friends for advice.
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.
Like my parents, my husband and I have worked hard for what we have in life.
Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when you get there.
Plus their spouses, my parents, my sister and I and, in the earlier years, some older cousins.
Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.
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Besides, I still regarded myself as accountable to my parents, and they were pleased to hear that I was considering the Civil Service.
My parents can come and watch, I can go home, it's San Diego.
My parents are here tonight, and I am so proud to be the daughter of Chuck and Sally Heath.
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.
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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My health continued to decline, and my parents were told to go pray because if I continued to not receive enough oxygen I would only have two hours to live.
My parents are immigrants from Mexico and when I began school they did not speak English and neither did I.
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It took a few seconds for it to sink in, then I told my parents and persuaded them to turn back.
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.
She was our maid, and had been since before I was born, before my parents left our country and moved to Egypt.
That shaped my view of the world, as I saw the challenges that she and my parents had to deal with.
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