It's important for him to share stories. Growing up in Pendleton he was often found himself in the middle of racial tensions because he was is part white.

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It can't be that he's got mixed together memories of growing up in France and memories of growing up in Detroit.

他不可能拥有混合的记忆，既有在法国长大的回忆,也有底特律长大的回忆。

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One said the Jackson family was regarded as royalty when she was growing up, but the singer's many plastic surgeries made some believe he hoped to obscure his black identity.

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He said Drummer Rigby's dream had been to join the army when he was growing up.

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He is encouraged by the growing interest in the energy business, saying he's never seen such a bubbling up of technology.

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But he was growing up in Houston, home of NASA's Mission Control.

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