Nevertheless, with the exuberance of youth, I tired to make my way to school by bicycle and was prevented from entering several roads because of craters and unexploded bombs.

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With just a few exceptions, that includes nearly every person I have ever worked with, a big chunk of my extended family, most of my friends going all the way back to elementary school and probably all the kids who were in my nursery at the hospital where I was born.

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If I still believed that childhood obesity was something that I was called to dedicate my life to, then I could find a way to create after-school sports and fitness programs, educational seminars, or new school curriculum that developed fundamental changes in the habits of parents and children.

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As a boy, my earliest memory of being a customer revolves around a sweet old lady who sold penny candy from her porch to my friends and me on our way home from school.

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"For us, the only way to escape our economic status was through school, and that's what my mum always told us, " Pejic says.

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