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And it took me a while to understand it, but he said to me, when I went to college, he said, "You're the first person in the family to go to college.
But they also help me stay connected to friends and family.
But fast enough, those building numbers became family names.
Grandpa taught me about the quiet and cohesive ways of the woods, and how my family was knit into it.
This has earned me the nickname "The Poo Princess" in my family, and it's ruined many family vacations, because this is not normal.
The attending physician directed me to go share with Harold and his family the diagnosis, the prognosis and options of care.
And he said, "My family."
I started looking into the stands and I spotted a little white flag with lettering done in black spray paint, that read: "Silvio, your family and all of San Pedro are here."
When I arrived in Beirut on assignment to cover that war, I was relieved to be united with my family, after they had finally managed to escape southern Lebanon.
Culturally, he's expected to provide for his family, but he simply can't.
The Daniels family, for example, set up a DNA lab in the basement of their suburban Chicago home.
This is not a family made of PhD scientists.
This is a family like any other.
For the Daniels family, the personal DNA machine is like the chemistry set for the 21st century.
Some people are choosing to share homes not with family, but with other people who understand the health and economic benefits of daily community.
Rather than depending only on the idealized family unit to get all of your emotional needs met, you have two dozen other people that you can go to to talk about a hard day at work or troubleshoot how to handle an abusive teacher.
It's a lot of pressure, trying to be that perfect family behind that white picket fence.
The "new better off," as I've come to call it, is less about investing in the perfect family and more about investing in the imperfect village, whether that's relatives living under one roof, a cohousing community like mine, or just a bunch of neighbors who pledge to really know and look out for one another.
A second very important finding from the Harvard Grant Study said that happiness in life comes from love, not love of work, love of humans: our spouse, our partner, our friends, our family.
They are, but what's even more unusual about them is that they're compassionate and altruistic not just towards people who are in their own innermost circle of friends and family.
But Anna had a different, trickier task than the writers in these traditions: as a princess writing about her own family, she had to balance her loyalty to her kin with her obligation to portray events accurately, navigating issues like Alexios’s embarrassing stab to the buttocks.
My family has been part of that struggle for a very long time.
I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.
The addiction that plagued my community also plagued my family, and even, sadly, my own mom.
There were a lot of problems that I saw in my own family, problems caused sometimes by a lack of money, problems caused sometimes by a lack of access to resources and social capital that really affected my life.
When I got admitted to Yale, a family member asked me if I had pretended to be a liberal to get by the admissions committee.
Even if you don't give in to that hopelessness, even if you think, let's say, that your choices matter and you want to make the good choices, you want to do better for yourself and for your family, it's sometimes hard to even know what those choices are when you grow up in a community like I did.
Economists call the value that we gain from our informal networks, from our friends and colleagues and family "social capital."
These are all instances of childhood trauma, and they're pretty commonplace in my family.
Importantly, they're not just commonplace in my family right now.
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