"But I don't care because my parents have seen my work, and they trust me, " she says.
But there was no conscious idea of what this would be, partly because my parents were quite unmusical in the professional sense.
You know, we couldn't afford to get fast food every week, because my parents couldn't afford it, so it was something you did on a special occasion.
It's somebody talking about, I love and cherish my homeland, my home place, because my parents are there and my roots are there and my life is there.
As I described in my first published short story more than 15 years ago, had my first and oldest sister not died in utero with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, I would never have been born because my parents were committed to a 2-child family.
This was doubly humiliating, not just for me but also for my parents, because Uncle Simon's wife, Marie, had pulled strings to get me into prestigious Congregation Shearith Israel, the majestic Spanish and Portuguese synagogue at 70th Street and Central Park West.
It was because they were glorified toys that my parents treated them as such.
Once I started walking, my parents worried about me because every time I fell, I would hit my forehead on the ground.
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.
When I was a kid, my parents were a little uptight because the things I was interested in weren't the proper things for a six-year-old.
My parents would really love it because I'm their only daughter.
Anne Marie's family paid for it and was in atten-dance (more on them eventually), but my parents were not, mostly because I didn't tell them about it.
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.
I'd always tell you where I stood. (Applause.) And, most of all, I would wake up every single day thinking about you, thinking about how to make your lives a little bit better. (Applause.) Because in you I see my own life, and everything that my parents and grandparents struggled for.
"When my parents got to the school, they were so anxious because they didn't see me, " Wei says.
My parents taught me the value of a strong work ethic because that was how you got ahead in life.
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But what I remind young people -- because many young people can see this in their lives -- what my parents did do for us is that they saved and sacrificed and poured every drop of anything they had into me and my brother so that we could get the kind of education and opportunities they only dreamed of.
There have been doors as you can see from my background all along my way because I was so fortunate to have a wonderful family, wonderful parents, and wonderful people who often times saw more in me than I saw in myself all along my way.
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But my parents and Colombe are convinced they're swimming in the ocean just because they live in their fifteen hundred square feet with their piles of furniture and paintings.
And every semester, my father was determined to pay that bill on time -- because like so many parents, he was so proud to be sending his kids to college.
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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.
My parents are the former type: They have an aging Dell laptop at home because that's what is used at the office.
Although I was studying French because I dreamed of going to Paris, I actually dreaded leaving home, and in the end my parents did not want me to leave, either.
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.
Without question, my brothers and I become doctors because we were (and continue to be) inspired by the example of our parents, both academic physicians.
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My room still looks the same -- same sheets, same pictures. (Laughter.) Neither of my parents got the chance to attend college, but let me tell you what they did do, because you all know this story -- they saved for us, they sacrificed everything for us, why?
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