But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son.

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But one computer expert is making my dreams of simultaneous blogging-eating-caffeinating sound a bit nightmarish.

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When the depression hit, the jobs dried up and my grandfather went home, but he had dreams for his own children, who came to America several decades later.

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"I think it's driven by the fact that I want to tell (my boyfriend) these dreams, but I'm still kind of asleep, so I just reach for the phone and text him regardless of what it is, and I have no recollection of doing it all, " Potega said.

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As a young woman growing up in Louisiana, a career in the Foreign Service was never really on my list of life dreams -- but all that changed, beginning with graduate school and a research project in Africa that opened my eyes to the possibilities of diplomatic life.

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And in my dreams I am running not toward the trailer but back toward the gravel pit.

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My husband and I have a ton of hopes and dreams for our child, but in the end it all just boils down to one thing: We want him to be happy.

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