"Our family was born to be working in the business, our father gave us no choice, " chuckles Sy-Coson (known as Tessie to her friends), who first worked part-time as a cashier in an sm store while a college student.

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One of them works part-time at New River Community College, while the other is a student there, authorities said.

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He is married to Holly Petraeus, whom he met while he was a cadet at West Point and she was a student at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

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Today she juggles job, marriage and family while straddling three continents, with a home in California where she spends weekends and holidays with her two college-student children, ages 23 and 18, and trips to Europe and Asia, where her husband works.

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