Mr. SULTERS: You know, it doesn't seem like you could find anything good in any of the layoffs, but I'm laid off now and I can help my mom - she needs total care.

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She now has AIDS. Along with that diagnosis came a difficult decision for my mom, whether to start AIDS medication.

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So now, not only do I have to figure out how to balance my life as a mom with my career as a tech CEO, I also have to worry about being perceived as incompetent simply because I breastfed my babies?

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After years of making strained excuses about why I had to be picked up by my mom at the exact same time every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, now at least one other kid knew about me the thing I suddenly knew about him.

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One of the kids, probably, oh, six or seven years old at the time, talked to these folks - I don't think this was one of my kids - but he said, say, mom, can I go get that pizza now?

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You know, when I was in - graduating from law school, I handed my mom my diploma and she looked at me and she said, are you going to surprise me now and go to medical school?

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