And I think about my mom -- a single mom, because my dad left when I was a baby.
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2011 was the first conference that I noticed had child care in the same building and wished that I had known because I left my nursing baby at home with his Dad.
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"I left Venezuela because my brother got kidnapped, our house got burglarized, cars stolen, " Carlos Quijada said.
When I was 64 my left leg was amputated below the knee because there was an infection that couldn't be cured.
Mr Abdallah: The reason why I left for Kenya was because I have realised my son was misled into believing that he was fighting in a holy war.
While older, more experienced and better-paid reporters were getting laid off left and right, I got hired because my employer could pay me pennies, and I would work my butt off to prove myself.
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And, because of my spinal cord injury from the back breakage, I can't feel my left foot so good either.
But there was method to my madness because by the next dry season, the fate of the Cardamoms, the last great wilderness left in Indochina, may already be decided, before almost anyone from the outside world gets a look at it.
Because we are American, my mom managed to get the entire family in to the U.S. We left everything behind.
It was also very exciting, because for the first time, something from my end of the world -- you know, something from the left-of-the-dial end of the world that was previously relegated to college radio (made it big).
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