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He bought 10 bikes, with the help of family and friends, and his dream is to eventually expand to several hundred within the next three years.
My family and I bought our first and only home on December 13, 2001, a fixer-upper in a beautiful spot of Los Altos Hills, California, from where I am speaking to you now.
It took me several years, but with the help of an incredibly supportive family, I finally decided life was still worth living.
My family's first TV set in 1948 had only three knobs that I quickly mastered: an on-off switch, a volume knob, and a channel selector knob.
So we set up a program with Essex County Council to test out intensive family therapeutic support for those families with adolescents on the edge of the care system.
For this reason, I had to leave my family when I was seven and to stay in a city far away from my village with no contact with my family.
But now they can stay in the country and work on different building sites and earn money to feed their family.
It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English.
It's a place where my family has been in the safari business for four generations.
When I was nine years old, President Mandela came to stay with my family.
At night, I would sit with my family around the snowy, bunny-eared TV, and watch images of that same quiet man from the garden surrounded by hundreds and thousands of people as scenes from his release were broadcast nightly.
Or they like, they hope, to live on as part of some greater whole, a nation or a family or a tribe, their gene pool.
Things are different because now I know that depression is the family secret that everyone has.
Growing up, there were only six Arabs in my town, and they were all my family.
Now there are 20 Arabs in town, and they are still all my family.
The other factor, by the way, those of you who are parents, was being teased by family members about their weight.
This is not a question of individual concern, this is a matter of family honor, and in particular, men's honor.
But Faiza didn't actually realize this, because there's so little sexuality education in schools, and so little communication in the family.
And they face a daily struggle with social stigma, with family despair, and with religious fire and brimstone.
Double standards for men and women, sex as a source of shame, family control limiting individual choices, and a vast gulf between appearance and reality: what people are doing and what they're willing to admit to, and a general reluctance to move beyond private whispers to a serious and sustained public discussion.
Her care became all-consuming for our family.
They didn't have to feel bad for me because I was nervous, they could experience that with me, and we were all one big happy, nervous, uncomfortable family.
People online, and sometimes even in real life, were disrespectful to me and my family, and talked about how the whole thing was a waste of time, and it really discouraged me.
So it was comments like these that really discouraged me from wanting to make change in the future because I thought, people don't care, people think it's a waste of time, and people are going to be disrespectful to me and my family.
What if you notice signs of PTSD in a friend or family member?
I'm referring to how immigrants, when they come to these neighborhoods, they begin to alter the one-dimensionality of parcels and properties into more socially and economically complex systems, as they begin to plug an informal economy into a garage, or as they build an illegal granny flat to support an extended family.
Throughout that career, I never accepted that a filmmaker should set about putting their own work outside or above what he or she believed to be a decent set of values for their own life, their own family, and the future of the society in which we all live.
Over the next year, while my family was righting itself, I started to realize that even if I could go back into government, I didn't want to.
In the workplace, real equality means valuing family just as much as work, and understanding that the two reinforce each other.
If you work for me, and you have a family issue, I expect you to attend to it, and I am confident, and my confidence has always been borne out, that the work will get done, and done better.
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