Not only that, but my parents started wondering about packages arriving COD from Brooklyn with my name on them.
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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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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.
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.
But my parents and my relatives didn't find this to be anything other than a challenge, get the kids ready so when the barriers fall, they'll be able to march on through.
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.
But what my parents did do for us -- they saved, and they sacrificed, and they poured everything they had into me and my brother so that we could get the kind of education and have the kind of opportunities they could only dream of.
But neither of my parents had the opportunity to attend college.
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.
Volunteering in the community was something that was highly valued in my family not as something we talked about but just something my grandparents and parents modeled.
What can you say to reassure me, but more importantly, my parents, that I will be able to sufficiently support myself after I graduate?
But I felt cruddy my parents never saw me graduate.
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It was a re-assuring message for Scottish parents but in my conversations with headteachers, I was getting another, and quite different, explanation as to why the General Teaching Council was dealing with so few cases of incompetence.
And I want to take this opportunity to say how sad I am for Eliot Spitzer's family, particularly his teenage daughters, his wife, of course, but his parents who are my generation and wonderful nice people, and I know this must be a terrible blow for them.
But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin.
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But let me tell you what my parents did do for me, which I know many people share this story -- my parents saved for us.
Nnamabia stared at my father with wounded eyes and said that he may have done horrible things in the past, things that had caused my parents pain, but that he had done nothing in this case.
"But I don't care because my parents have seen my work, and they trust me, " she says.
Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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He actually helped me out, gave me money but also did a lot of things that my parents couldn't do for me and gave me that love.
But I cannot ignore the continued suffering and uncertainty that my parents and my community live with every day.
"This is not what my parents would have chosen for me, but when the wave comes up, you ride it, " Baur said.
But the next morning a security man came to tell my parents that Nnamabia had been arrested at a bar with some cult boys and was at the police station.
My parents didn't want to move, but couldn't imagine sharing the duplex with strangers.
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?
By the end of the week, I noticed that my parents were acting differently subtly so, but differently.
But I now have a much better relationship with food, and my parents.
Allen was white, but she was also part of a generation of people, like my parents, who married at an earlier age.
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