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...great moment to see these two incredibly intelligent bright men who happen to be father and son and business partners,” she said. “It was nice to see that the HBS network extends beyond campus—and that there’s a human aspect...
...Cancer is having a little brother who can’t play with me, a mother that breaks into tears with every piece of news, a father who’s so worried that he doesn’t know I exist,” said Wellesley student Jess Haladyna...
...pretty sure he has no idea about the countless nights I’ve cried myself to sleep,” Wellesley student Lisa Koplik said about her father, who is currently battling cancer. “I don’t think he knows how terrified I am that he won’t meet my children or come to my wedding or be around as I get older and need his help...
...once spent three whole minutes watching him flip through the channels and stop on Country Music Television and watch an entire Brad Paisley music video in which a girl was crying about how either her boyfriend, truck, tractor, father, or American flag (I can’t remember which) left her at prom. It took my dad three minutes to decipher what was going on before he moved to MTV, completely oblivious as to what “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” and “Run’s House” are about...
...story germinated out of old, semi-legendary family stories told me by my maternal grandfather about his childhood in northern Maine, which was impoverished. His father abandoned his family when my grandfather was 12 because he had epilepsy and his wife was going to have him admitted to an asylum. That was a formative family legend, but I could never get my grandfather to elaborate on it—I don’t know if it was painful or just generational to only talk about. Just being interested in my family made [these legends] irresistible to me. Just describing...