“For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.”
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It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.
My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.
