"I always watched cricket on television when I was growing up and every Sunday my Father would play cricket with me just to stop me nagging him, " she confessed.

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They did what they thought was the best for me growing up, but I believe they had many emotional issues that they "dealt with" using food and passed down to me in the process.

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"Growing up in Dallas, with severe weather, my parents gave me an anemometer, which measures wind, " he says, and his interest took off from there.

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Growing up with the promise of more Star Wars films, nothing could have let me down harder than the trilogy Lucas eventually produced.

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And when I last visited the Republic of Korea, President Lee shared with me a wonderful story of what the American presence had meant to him as he was growing up, and it was a reminder and a testament I think of the importance of the relationship and the alliance between our two countries.

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