And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.
My parents had worked extremely hard to put their children through college without debt.
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My parents had bought the land whilst abroad and had a mortgage for the bungalow.
Warming up for the show that afternoon, I with my parents had gone on the NBC studio tour.
My parents had put me through college, and I was living at home.
And neither of my parents had a chance to get a college degree.
I'm the only one born in England, in 1972, a few years after my parents had emigrated from Pakistan.
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And neither of my parents had the chance to get a college degree.
My parents had travelled to their home town to visit our grandparents, so Nnamabia and I went to church alone.
We were not wealthy but my parents had a richness of ambition for their children, for their education and well-being.
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That shaped my view of the world, as I saw the challenges that she and my parents had to deal with.
As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.
But neither of my parents had the opportunity to attend college.
My family lived in a little bitty apartment on the South Side of Chicago, and neither of my parents had the opportunity to go to college.
My parents had worked hard to seize opportunities in their lives, saving enough money to provide me with extracurricular opportunities and eventually hire me a tutor.
If my parents had told me that what I wanted to do was stupid and foolish, that would probably be the fastest way to guarantee I was going to do it.
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"One day we started chatting and discovered he was in a custody battle over his daughter, and my parents had been in a custody battle when I was a kid, " Nancy remembered.
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.
Whenever Father acquired a new book on our country the country my parents had fled, the country I had never seen, yet continued to think of as my own he would immediately finger the index pages.
Back in 1998, my parents had been anchored off that very seawall before heading south for Norfolk and the start of the Caribbean 1500, a rather laid back ocean race from the Chesapeake Bay to the Virgin Islands.
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It was really severe, and the nearest hospital was 27 miles away, and my parents had to debate whether or not to take him to the doctor because we did not have the money to pay for the healthcare coverage.
But neither of my parents had the opportunity to go to college, but as I told the girls earlier, what my parents did for us is that they saved, and they sacrificed everything for us because they wanted something more for me and my brother.
Although I was born in Los Angeles in 1942 my parents had moved there as part of the war effort, working in aircraft plants and raising poinsettias in greenhouses for the soldiers my family soon moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where my dad got into the grocery business.
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Later, when my parents had come home and neighbors began to troop in to say ndo sorry and to snap their fingers and heave their shoulders up and down, I sat alone in my room upstairs and realized what the queasiness in my gut was: Nnamabia had done it, I knew.
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.
This was a big disappointment, the biggest, because I'd taken up pack-aging science, and I'd forgotten my literature, forgotten that you can't go home again, and so I thought that Amherst the town where I'd grown up, the town where both my parents had grown up, the town where both their families had lived for two hundred years would still be my hometown.
My parents never had the chance to go to college themselves.
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