Word: fatherness
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...Copney, whose father is a retired New York police officer and whose mother worked for the City of New York, graduated from a performing arts high school in the city. At 15, he wrote "Feelin’ It," a song performed by the R&B/pop group New Edition...
Copney, whose father is a retired New York police officer and mother worked for New York City, graduated from a performing arts high school in New York. At 15, he wrote "Feelin' It," performed by the R&B/pop group New Edition...
...they struggled to get to school without - unlike my father, who told my brother when he was deciding between schools, he had picked a school that was more of a basketball-focused school, and my father asked him, Is this the school you really want to go to? And my brother confessed that he would have rather gone to Princeton, but he just thought this one would be more affordable. And my father got really angry with him and he said, "Don't make a decision about your education based on what I can afford. I'll figure...
...there were kids in my neighbor ... who didn't have a father that felt that way or could even think that way, right. So you don't go to college or you don't go to the school that you wanted to go to, or when you get there you're worrying every semester about whether you can register, which were ... you know, many kids that I knew felt that way. And when I worked in the University of Chicago, I saw kids like me who were using their loan money to help their parents pay the electric bill...
...were so blessed, my brother and I, because we had everything you needed. It had nothing to do with money, but we had two parents who loved us, a father that had a steady job all of his life. We had a strong external family unit. I grew up with grandparents and uncles and aunts. People didn't go to college, but you had Christmas dinner together. You know, they were just this huge, strong support system. The neighborhood that I lived in wasn't wealthy, but it wasn't crime-ridden, so you could play in the streets...