My parents were also union activists and my mother led one notable strike in Ireland.
Granted, later, when I became more independent and my parents were less involved, my temper flared.
My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.
My parents were involved with the schools and took advantage of the resources offered.
My parents were so excited when I said I was considering coming back home.
We even moved in together, and for years my parents were none the wiser.
After all, my parents were on a trip to California and my sister, Grace, was only nine.
My parents were also stage performers, and recognized that I had musical aptitude at an early age.
By the end of the week, I noticed that my parents were acting differently subtly so, but differently.
My parents were completely convinced that an undergraduate liberal arts degree was the key to success in life.
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Finally, as I approach my 50s, I believe my parents were right all along: I am not my body.
"It's unbelievable that my parents were happy back then when they were allotted their small apartment, " thinks Sarah Stotzner.
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My parents were strict when it came to what we ate, and believe me when I say it sucked.
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Whereas my parents were struggling to survive, my high school classmates were the offspring of congressmen and banking giants.
My parents were Conservatives and I have remained loyal to the party.
But there was no conscious idea of what this would be, partly because my parents were quite unmusical in the professional sense.
"My parents were worried about me, " said Ms. Tello, who moved to the U.S. with her family from Ecuador when she was 6 years old.
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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 were relieved-I'd finally "come to terms" with my environment.
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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.
For instance, when I was very young, you know, my parents were still married, and I lived sort of kind of a typical kid in small-town Kansas life.
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.
As a child growing up in the Clinton Park neighborhood in Houston, Texas, my parents were just regular folks trying to raise their five children (sounds like Gov. Sarah Palin).
"When my parents were my age, their parents were dead and they were having fun white-water rafting down the Snake River and here I sit -- two houses down, " said Jones.
"I learnt to play rugby in Yorkshire and loved my time there, although I didn't develop the posh accent my parents were looking for after paying all that money for it, " joked Dallaglio.
At the time my parents were living in Africa so I travelled a bit more than other kids at school, and with the surname Cook I ended up with the nickname Thomas Cook (the travel agent).
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