As the first-born child (and an undeniable Type Double-A personality), I started taking over big things for my mother when my father was still in the nursing home.
Growing up I lived with my mother, my father, two older siblings and my grandparents, and I can truly say that I had the best experiences in life.
He tried to do all of the right things for me in the time that we had together, but I was a quiet kid and like many boys related more with my mother than my father.
So after a few months, my mother's people sent me and my brother back to this little village in Arkansas to my grandmother, my father's mother who was raising me, and she used to braid my hair.
The following month, I opened my doors again to my mother after she had just left my father.
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My mother and father had been among those in favor, my mother more actively so, because she had more time.
My mother wrote letters to my father in the summer she rode with the Freedom Riders, and you know, I think that even as she might have imagined such a moment, I don't know if she would have believed that it could occur in her lifetime.
Four nights per week Talk Time was with my mother and three nights with my father.
My mother was rabidly Irish and my father rabidly Catholic so it was perhaps inevitable that as a boy I would rabidly root for Notre Dame.
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My mother and father always taught us that our only way out of poverty was through education.
Both my mother and father were raised by parents who lived through the Great Depression and who were very frugal.
We talked to the IRC and they helped us again to find an apartment and this time my mother and father found jobs.
My mother and father had those dreams for me.
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My mother and father, who were 15 at the time, were evacuated from Gibraltar and were brought to London where they spent four years working and then were transferred to Scotland for the final six months of their stay.
But I ate hot pot growing up in the 1970s and '80s in South Carolina, and if my mother and father could find enough ingredients there to prepare the gut-busting hot pot meals we had at our house, you can find them anywhere.
We lived a very normal life, my mother was a teacher for 25 years, my father was an engineer.
Mr. Sullivan owned my mother and her children, but my father was owned by Mr. John Rector, whose place was adjacent to ours.
"I believe that if my mother had an education at the time my father died, she would have been able to support me and keep me, " Coursaris says.
In four swipes, I dove back in time to read about my mother's father's mother's mother, Florence Antonia Ford, and her family in the 1910 Census record.
Before moving to Manila, my parents had come to the U.S. in the 1960s to pursue their dreams of higher education, my father at Yale and my mother at New York University.
To my father and mother, whose eyes were wide open with question, he showed the picture of my second brother printed in the morning edition of Kyoto Shimbun.
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My mother told me that as a young bride, she wakened frequently to find my father pacing the kitchen floor.
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