I can't remember my mother or father ever asking me about what I actually learned in school or if I enjoyed a particular subject.

我不记得我妈妈还是爸爸曾否问过我在学校到底学到了什么，或我是否喜欢某个课程。

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Only a handful of people know this about me, but five years ago, my father died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. This is a fatal disease that literally eats away at a person's muscles until they cannot walk, talk or even breathe.

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